I've done quite a bit more work on the book and as always I'm looking for feedback. The book is about all aspects of using e-books with the Sugar platform: finding them, reading them, creating them, making e-books from bound and printed books, and publishing them, either on your own server or by donating them to the Internet Archive or Project Gutenberg.
This project has involved much more research than I had anticipated. I designed and built my own book scanner, scanned and converted four books, donated three of them to the Internet Archive, donated one of them to Distributed Proofreaders (which will finish preparing them for Project Gutenberg), learned how to research copyright status on books, and lately have been investigating Sayamindu's Pathagar Book Server project. All that is in the book. Not only that, but I have been working with the Rural Design Collective in Oregon, and among other things they have a young artist who will create a book cover so beautiful that women will read my book by accident, believing it to be the latest Nicholas Sparks novel. I think that when all the pieces are in place (Pathagar, Get Books, Library Activity, wider use of versions of Sugar > .82) we're going to have a really terrific e-book story to tell. Consider my book the first draft. You can read it here: http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ReadingandSugar-en-2010.07.12-00.46.21.pdf Thanks, James Simmons _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
