Sean, I have had a few email exchanges with the Rural Design Collective. My understanding of what they're doing is that they have a static website on the stick which can be navigated using the Browse Activity. The books will be in the DJVU format the last I heard (only a week or two ago).
Sayamindu has suggested that his "Get Books" Activity (OPDS version of "Get Internet Archive Books") might be used as an interface to the library on a stick they have developed. They seem interested; it would certainly give them a better named Journal entry for the downloaded book than Browse gives them. Lots of good things will happen for young readers when the XO can run something later than .82. EPUB support, DJVU support, Text to Speech with highlighting for Read Etexts, Read will be able to remember the page you left off reading on, Aleksey's Library Activity, etc. James Simmons On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm intrigued by the Rural Design Collective whom I hadn't heard of. > > The blog link seems to be bad so: > > http://ruraldesigncollective.org > http://ruraldesigncollective.org/lab/ui/ > > They seem to be coding an Activity which lives on a USB stick with > eBooks, but I don't think it is in the Activity Library > (activities.sugarlabs.org) > > Sean _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
