Caryl, It looks like we already can use these books on the XO. The Read Activity has support for the EPUB format which should be perfectly adequate for any of these books. The student can simply download the book from the Browse Activity and open it with Read.
Google seems to be pushing its own book reading app and store, but really all you need is the page with the links to EPUBs. Actually, Read has the best EPUB support around. I have donated several books to Project Gutenberg and PG makes EPUBs by taking a web page and putting EPUB files around it. The problem with doing that is that you can do things with a web page that will not render well on a Nook or Kindle. You really need to hand craft an EPUB to make it work on these devices, and PG isn't set up to let you do that. However, the Read Activity can render anything a web browser can do because it has the engine of a web browser built in. James Simmons On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: > ¡Hola! Si deseas una traducción, puedes usar Google o preguntame. > ¡Abrazos! Carolina > > > Hi Folks! > > > Lots of interesting new news from the CK-12 Foundation. 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