Tomeu, It is a fair statement to say that most PG books are in English. However, if you go to the PG website you can list out books in various languages, and there are a fair number in Spanish. PG accepts out of copyright books from everywhere, so if a country wanted more books in its own language it could do the scanning, proofreading, etc. itself and have PG host it. I'd strongly suggest exploring the PG website. They have a lot to offer. You can even create a custom CD with all the Spanish books on it and download it.
See this page for Spanish books: (and links for other languages) http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/es I wish I could have my offline catalog feature filter by language, but the offline catalog does not list language for a book. You can see what it looks like here: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/GUTINDEX.ALL There is also a Project Gutenberg Europe: http://pge.rastko.net/browse/languages/es It looks like they have the same Spanish books as the regular site does. The Internet Archive has lots of books, and they are in both PDF and DJVU format, useable by the core Read activity. No offline catalog from them, unfortunately. It looks like PG and PG Australia are the only ones with an offline catalog. Glad you liked the Activity. If you can think of any improvements let me know. At the moment I'm thinking of ways to better split Title and Author, as well as including the PG Australia catalog, which would add over 2,000 books out of copyright in Australia but still in copyright in the U.S. James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > 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? > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
