Caroline, In honor of Little Brother being released as a plain text file I am working on fixing Read Etexts so it can deal with files that need word wrapping as well as those which do not. I've made a good start on this but I want to do a better job of regression testing than I have been doing lately, because I've discovered bugs that have been there awhile but which I had not noticed. When that happens you have to assume that there are more to be found.
I should have release 15 ready later tonight or tomorrow. As far as Little Brother is concerned, why not have it in text *and* PDF format? James Simmons On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Jim Simmons<[email protected]> wrote: > 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
