Caroline, The plain text version on the website will not work with Read Etexts, because that Activity is designed to work with Gutenberg etexts which don't require word-wrapping. However it is possible that the Gutenberg site itself will have a version in the correct format, because I believe they have "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" as a PG file.
The latest posted Read Etexts has annotations, which is a worthwhile feature, but it also breaks copying to the clipboard. I have since fixed that and will post an update soon, maybe later today. The Baen Free Library has books in RTF format, which *might* work with the Write Activity. I think the Write Activity can export PDFs too. If true, that gives you a way to read fairly current science fiction books in Sugar. If I can get this to work I'll make a movie of it. Project Gutenberg has a surprising amount of classic science fiction on it. Look for titles by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Stanley Weinbaum, Edward E Smith, Raymond Cummings, John W Campbell, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon, Leigh Brackett, and probably others as well. As far as the Cory's website goes, the PDF is the only game in town. James Simmons > Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:26:34 -0400 > From: Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> > Subject: [IAEP] eBook reading advice > To: iaep <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I know there have been advances in eBook reading in the last few months. > I am preparing a master USB to copy for a presentation at World Con. > > I will be doing a panel with Cory Doctrow who wrote and has realeased CC the > book Little Brother. Its up for a Hugo this year and I recommend it to > anyone who likes young adult SciFi that promotes open source. > > I'd like to put a copy of the book on the sticks I will be burning. > > http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ > > Its available in a wide variety of formats. Which one will work best in > Sugar? > > My master stick currently has > > Read 67 > Read eText 12 > > Should I upgrade? Which one should I use? > > Any other very applicable childrens books I should download while I am at > it? > > Thanks! > Caroline _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
