On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 15:46, Jim Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > Tomeu, > > I thought about that myself, but they specifically are targeting the > XO users and they mention the Read Activity, and it will be some time > before you can read EPUB's on the XO because it will need a newer > version of Sugar than the XO has available to it. Also they seem to > say "not PDF" but practically speaking that's all you can use on the > XO with Read. > > Sounds like I'm not the only one who's confused.
Seems to actually be EPUB: http://blog.laptop.org/2009/10/25/1-6-million-books/ Don't know what is OLPC's deployment plan. Regards, Tomeu > James Simmons > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> > -- «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
