Dear all, We are working with the gnubook developers to help optimize it for reading books on the XO. Those of you who have tested it out already know what it looks like; for the rest of you, you can still see it in action at the open library. Help and suggestions are much appreciated. If your own projects use less hackable book readers, please consider migrating to gnubook -- every Internet Archive book will be available in that format. http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnubook
We are also working with CK12 to start wikifying some useful public domain texts, so that teachers can start making localized versions of them. This is another step towards the goal of useful wikibooks for every student -- and tools to let every student create their own books. Their flexr toolchain is undergoing rapid development, and it makes me grin every time I use it. Poke user:jgay if you want more access to it than you get by default (say, to create your own book from scratch)... have faith that underneath the sexy exterior is the heart of a mediawiki instance, ready to synch with your favorite wiki anywhere else in the world. http://flexbooks.ck12.org/flexr/ For discussions about every part of this toolchain, from annotation and uploading to reading to bookshelf & collection creation, we are setting up a new list : bookrea...@lists.laptop.org Some of the initial discussion will be carried out here, to solicit input from everyone; you are encouraged to join that list for more detailed discussion. Regards, SJ ps - At some point in the platonic future these topics may merge with those on wikirea...@lists, but for now the former is primarily about finding, organizing, and sharing mostly-static booklists or syllabi, and the latter is focused on compiling, copyediting, and sharing collections of thousands of wiki articles, with dense internal links and regular revisions and updates. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep