2009/5/18 James Simmons <jim.simm...@walgreens.com>: > Kathy, > > The free books aren't on a thumbdrive. They're scattered all over the > Internet. > > There are hundreds of thousands of free books that teachers could use if > they knew how to find them. One way to help them would be to put links > to the best websites on the start page when you open Browse. That would > be good, but finding and downloading the books to the Journal is still a > lot of work. Read Etexts won't let you browse through every available > free book, but it does let you browse and download 28,000 good ones. > > What I hope to accomplish is to demonstrate just how much free content > there is. Free ebooks can be used to justify using Sugar on a Stick or > buying XO's all by itself, just like VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 justified > buying PC's and Apples for businesses. In the long term all the other > stuff that Sugar can do should be more valuable, but ebook reading is > something that's easy to sell.
I think this an awesome idea and that this attitude of growing one step at a time will lead Sugar to a consistent growth. I'm anxious to hear how people use your software and which improvements are proposed. I will love to help give your software to .uy for testing and feedback. Regards, Tomeu > James Simmons > > > Kathy Pusztavari wrote: >> James, >> >> I'm curious. Can't it be as simple as putting books on memory or a >> thumbdrive and having a program find the books locally and let you pick from >> that list? Like MS Reader searching for .lit books or Peanut Reader >> (whatever it is called today) searching for .pdb files and creating a >> library list for you? >> >> -Kathy > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep