[IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 58

[James Simmons]

Kathy,

The free books aren't on a thumbdrive.  They're scattered all over the 
Internet.

There are hundreds of thousands of free books that teachers could use if 
they knew how to find them.  One way to help them would be to put links 
to the best websites on the start page when you open Browse.  That would 
be good, but finding and downloading the books to the Journal is still a 
lot of work.  Read Etexts won't let you browse through every available 
free book, but it does let you browse and download 28,000 good ones.

What I hope to accomplish is to demonstrate just how much free content 
there is.  Free ebooks can be used to justify using Sugar on a Stick or 
buying XO's all by itself, just like VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 justified 
buying PC's and Apples for businesses.  In the long term all the other 
stuff that Sugar can do should be more valuable, but ebook reading is 
something that's easy to sell.

James Simmons


Kathy Pusztavari wrote:
> James,
>
> I'm curious.  Can't it be as simple as putting books on memory or a
> thumbdrive and having a program find the books locally and let you pick from
> that list?  Like MS Reader searching for .lit books or Peanut Reader
> (whatever it is called today) searching for .pdb files and creating a
> library list for you?
>
> -Kathy