Caroline, Read Etexts has *not* removed the book search function. However, it only appears when you launch from the Activity ring, and NOT when you open a book that is already in the Journal.
As for books with pictures, you can't get those with Read Etexts. What you can use is my other book searching Activity, Get Internet Archive Books. This will let you download books with pictures as PDFs or DJVU files. DJVU's are a superior format (less disk space and memory needed to read) but really are only well supported by SoaS so if you're using an XO for the demos you're limited to PDF. The Internet Archive website has a listing of children's books, so you could look for titles there. If you're using Get Internet Archive Books you might try searching for the Oz books and other titles by L. Frank Baum. A kid's book that will absolutely knock your eyes out is "Abroad". It is so lavishly illustrated that the XO can't handle it in PDF format, although DJVU works fine. Another thing to try is to search for books with "Boy" and "Girl" in the title. This works for Read Etexts too. PG has lots of Juvenile novels (The Girl Aviator's Motor Butterfly, Tom Swift, Horatio Alger, etc.) The Internet Archive also has books in EPUB format, but I wouldn't recommend them for demos at this time. The text is produced by OCR with very little proofreading and EPUB makes "Abroad" look anorexic in comparison to the original. James Simmons > Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:02:04 -0500 > From: Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> > Subject: [IAEP] Book reading demo suggestions > To: iaep <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > I just downloaded Read eTexts 17 and it doesn't seem to include search > anymore. This could well be a good thing, but now I'm faced with figuring > out where to go and what book format I should use. :) What are a couple > good books and formats I could use for demos? I'd like children's books > with pictures if possible. > > Thanks! > Caroline _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
