[ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Anupam Jain
I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Great initiaitive by the Govt. though their website is a bit messed up in Firefox. Please spread the word! -- Anupam

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Pawan
Anupam Jain ajn...@... writes: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Great initiaitive by the Govt. though their website is a bit messed up in Firefox. Excellent

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Anupam Jainajn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Thats really are good efforts by NCERT and team. The good thing

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Smruti
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Great Initiative by GoI. But I am just curious, what is it's

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:33:23AM -0700, Smruti wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm.

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Nandeep Mali
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Kumar Appaiaha.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: [...] And, in any case, there isn't any _harm_ in making PDFs of the books available. Who knows, with e-book readers entering the market, we could envision people taking a single e-book reader to school, rather

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
At the moment each book is just showing content pages. And the devanagri fonts need some ironing out still. All the chapters are available. The idiot who designed the setup doesn't realize how broken it is. Each of the book links gives you a PDF with the contents, right? Open this PDF in