Many thanks for that James, great suggestion Sean
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:32 PM, James Simmons <jim.simm...@walgreens.com> wrote: > Sean, > > I'm blowing my own horn here, but I just finished a new version of Read > Etexts that might be worth a look. The new version has a "Books" tab > that lets you search the Project Gutenberg offline catalog and download > titles to the Journal. Gutenberg has lots of Juvenile books as well as > well known books by European authors in their original languages. I > posted it on ASLO yesterday, with new screenshots. > > In addition to the catalog search, if you run it on SoaS you can use the > Speech tab to read the book aloud with word highlighting. Many > different voices are available, so for instance you could use a French > voice for the works of Dumas and Verne. > > The books are plain text, no pictures, but if I say so myself Read > Etexts has become impressive in a way it never has been before. > > For books with pictures you could suggest a visit to the Internet > Archive website to get books in PDF format that Read could use. There > are some remarkable PDFs of scanned in book pages there. > > James Simmons > >> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:03:40 +0200 >> From: Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> >> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar? >> To: Sugar Labs Marketing <market...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, iaep >> <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>, Sugar Devel >> <sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org> >> Message-ID: >> <378b2b050905221103p1f5dbb29s935bc0b0c8543...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in >> Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue! >> >> More specifically, advising parents how to download & run SoaS and do >> educational stuff with their kids during the summer holidays. >> >> >> Off the top of my head I suggested a scenario where Memorize is >> customized with family photos, a Turtle Art lesson, ... >> >> Suggestions please! >> >> thanks >> >> Sean > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep