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 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
