Hi Caryl,
This is the page we were building up in the last Blueberry SoaS release,
unfortunately the recent Mirabelle SoaS release included a new version of
evence that badly broke Sugar's PDF support (Read). About the most
basic/critical feature for an educational platform was lost... :(
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/E-Books
Regards,
--Gary
On 24 Jun 2010, at 20:17, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> A few days ago I asked for links to sites with free digital textbooks.
> Thanks to all who sent links. I thought it would be a good idea to put them
> all in one place and share them with you all. (I'm sorry the formatting of
> this page seems to have a mind of its own!)
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> From Tabitha Roder ([email protected])International Childrens Digital
> Library (some other languages also available)
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> http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
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> From Avash Mulmi ([email protected]) in Nepal, but will lots of
> children's books in English as well. Put "English" in the search box and you
> will get some in English.
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> http://www.pustakalaya.org
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> From Abhishek Indoria ([email protected])
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> You need to register first (free) for this one. And, you must have a gmail
> account to use this site. Then, you can login. Please choose gigapedia from
> the search menu at the upper right corner of the site after you log in, and
> search for any book you like. Also, please visit the site's categories page
> to sort through them. It has more than 3 million books!
>
> http://gigapedia.com .
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> And, here are 3 more sent without comments:
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> From Edward Cherlin ([email protected])
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> http://www.librarianchick.com/
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> From ([email protected])
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> http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/227
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> From Nicholas Doiron ([email protected]) Audio versions of free ebooks.
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> http://librivox.org/newcatalog/
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> I'll add a link from the California digital textbook project. So far the
> books are only for high school math and science, but the quality is excellent:
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> http://about.ck12.org/
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> Kevin Mark ([email protected]) suggested that there needs to be a site
> where there is a list of books available with evaluations. Sounds like a
> great idea for some one to pick up on.
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> Check them out and let me know if you find anything you like.
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> Cheers!
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> Caryl OLPC Support Volunteer.
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