On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Martin Dengler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:37:42PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote: >> I've transcribed a large portion of this interview on my blog: >> http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/04/olpc-nepal-project-overview.html >> >> might be handy if you don't have 60 minutes to spare > > Thanks very much - 5 mins. vs. 60 mins...makes all the difference. > > The portion that I'll paraphrase as "content is king" (or "create the > content and the hardware orders will come", for a longer version) made > me re-think the ebook-concept-as-trojan-horse argument that's been > made before: its big advantage is that it short-circuits the "lack of > content" problem by definition: it seems popular discourse takes for > granted that e-book readers are separate to e-books but not that > educational laptops are separate from educational content. > > A killer app might be an "App Store" for books, with the ability to > access multiple "stores". Project Gutenberg could be a store, for > example. Even just Project Gutenberg support in Read would be cool > (Apologies if this is already available and I don't know about it - > please correct me). Calibre's been talked about but the feature is > "on the TODO list"[1] (though I didn't see it[2]).
I have been Sugarising FBReader for some time: see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Sayamindu/BookReader for details. There is also a discussion list that may be of interest to many: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/bookreader A nice source of ebooks is http://www.feedbooks.com/ Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
