On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:44, Jim Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an interesting article, but not very illuminating. Can anyone > figure out what they're doing now that they were not doing before to > make the books usable by XO users? It isn't clear from the article. > They have had books in PDF format since before the XO existed, so > what's new here?
I think they are mentioning that the books are available in a more light-weight format. "having a 10-kilobyte file beats the heck out of a 5-megabyte file" maybe EPUB? Regards, Tomeu > James Simmons > > >> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:59:15 +0200 >> From: Sean DALY <[email protected]> >> Subject: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to >> Kids with OLPC Laptops >> To: Sugar Labs Marketing <[email protected]>, iaep >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
