[Sugar-devel] Improving Reading Experience

[Jim Simmons]

Bastien,

To open a djvu file in evince you need a plugin.  This plugin is
included in Fedora but not installed by default.  I would guess the
situation is similar in other distros.  In Fedora I would do a yum
search on "djvu" or "evince" to find it.

If that doesn't work you can download a PDF instead.  All IA books
should be available in that format as well.

Thanks,

James Simmons


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Bastien<bastienguerry at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I downloaded latest version of GIAB from activities.sugarlabs.org.
> I downloaded a few books in .djvu format (it seems this is the main
> format available in Internet Archive) but couldn't open it in Read.
>
> Shall I search for other books in other formats?
>
>> 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.
>
> So do I.
>
>> 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.
>
> Caroline, can you provide a link to such a book in IA, one that I read
> in Read?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>  Bastien
>