[Sugar-devel] Improving Reading Experience

[Jim Simmons]

Bastien,

What might be more suited to Caroline's purposes is a demo of Get
Internet Archive Books, followed by demoing reading the downloaded
book in Read.  In Fedora 11 I can use the Read Activity (I couldn't in
any other Sugar test environment I ever had).  The advantage of doing
this is the books have pictures.  Caroline is trying to sell Sugar
itself, so we want to show reading for children at it's best.  Since
Gutenberg etexts are without pictures, plus we would have to explain
why it is that we have more than one Activity for reading (something
there is no need for them to know at this time) I think this is the
way to go.

If you go to the Internet Archive website you should be able to get a
list of children's books that you could search for with GIAB.
Caroline might suggest some that are not controversial.  I just found
out that the Oz books have been banned in a few places.  There is a
book "Abroad" which is quite beautiful and might be considered for a
demo.

James Simmons


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Bastien<bastienguerry at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Caroline,
>
> Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Can we get one with childrens books demoed?
>
> Sure!  Can you send me a link to such a book in Gutenberg?
>
>> I think also skip the downloading
>> from the activities portal, that is a separate video. Once you know how to do
>> that it will be boring to have to watch it for every activity.
>
> Right.  I will make another video demoing a child book and skipping the
> download step when Jim releases the version with annotation etc.
>
>> Also it seemed to cut off just when it was going to get exciting!!!! Were you
>> going to join the shared activity?
>
> That would make even more sense when we'll be able to share annotations
> on the book.
>
>> Dave C is a volunteer with video skills. Maybe you guys could work together to
>> create a video with some music and such?
>
> I'd be glad, sure!
>
> Thanks for the feedback,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>