On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:40, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 17:10, James Simmons <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Carol, >> >> Over the long weekend I finished version 11 of Read Etexts and posted it >> to http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4035. I hope you >> and everyone else will give it a try. > > Just tried in a recent Soas and it worked wonderfully. Congratulations! > > I would like to make it more widely used, but most of the content I > found was in english. Do we know other book sources with more content > in (for example) spanish?
Hmm, actually I looked for this book and couldn't find it from inside ETexts: http://www.gutenberg.cz/kniha.php?etext_nr=357 Any idea why? Thanks, Tomeu > Thanks, > > Tomeu > >> As for whether it will be of any use for those with unreliable net >> access, I believe it will be. First, a teacher or student can browse >> the catalog with no net access at all, because the catalog is included >> in the bundle. Second, the books are downloaded very quickly. A >> teacher could spend an hour or so in a net cafe and download hundreds of >> books, which she could share with her class on the Mesh network either >> one book at a time using the Read Etexts sharing feature or all at once >> using Aleksey Lim's forthcoming Library activity. While using my new >> gas grill this weekend I downloaded all 16 volumes of Burton's >> translation of the _Thousand Nights and a Night_, all 4 volumes of an >> English translation of the _Mahabharata_, plus 3 Jules Verne novels. >> The food being grilled did not suffer while I was doing this. >> >> You really need to try the catalog search to appreciate just how >> impressive it is to be able to quickly search a list of 24,000 some odd >> books in many languages. You want _Holinshed's Chronicles_? They have >> it. Jules Verne in the original French? It's there. Juvenile books? >> Tons of them. >> >> The catalog search makes it dramatically faster to find and download >> books from Gutenberg. The Journal entry is automatically given a decent >> title, something you won't get from the website, and the Journaled books >> can be resumed with one click. I've even solved the problem that saved >> page numbers don't survive a reboot. (This problem is fixed in SoaS but >> is still present in the latest release candidate for the XO, so we can >> assume that the problem will exist on most XO's for quite some time). I >> solve it by putting the saved page number in the Journal title. >> >> This release is a giant step forward for Read Etexts. For the first >> time it's really usable. >> >> And addressing your other point, I have no objection to packaged >> materials of any kind. I just think that we need to communicate that >> packaged materials are not the ONLY way to get content on the machine >> and read it, and that in fact there is a large amount of content that >> Sugar can use as is. >> >> James Simmons >> >> >> >> Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: >>> James, I think it is wonderful to make it easy for people with good >>> network access to fetch books from the net. But I don't think that >>> precludes the need for packages with selected materials. Kids in poor >>> areas don't necessarily have net access all the time. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
