Sora, The goodreads website https://www.goodreads.com might be useful. You can do rankings of books, reviews, have threaded discussions, post favorite quotes, interact with G+ and Facebook, and other things that the words "reading socially" would suggest.
I wrote a free book the might be of some use to you: https://archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment It is also available on the web. Here is the chapter on the Pathagar book server, which might be of interest: http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/the-pathagar-book-server/ James Simmons On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro <s...@unleashkids.org> wrote: > Thanks for the additional input, everyone. James, Gonzalo, Tony, some > responses below: > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:14 PM, James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> The catch is it only works with plain text files. >> > > Yes, my original thought was we could convert PDF to plain-text files and > just use the Write activity to do highlights and such. But, some of the > content we're working with is not OER (that's what happens when you need > high-quality books in a specific language), and I'm not sure if they'll be > okay with us manipulating the files like that. We've got to choose how many > battles to fight with them. Thanks for passing this tool on - looks like > it's better suited than the Write activity for reading. > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godi...@sugarlabs.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> I am available to work (on contract) in these features if you are >>> interested. >>> >> > Thank you for the offer, Gonzalo. Fortunately, we do have some money > raised to pay programmers. Right now I'm just trying to identify which > tasks to ask people to tackle. Bear in mind that this is my first > experience with software development; thanks for being patient,everyone, as > we try to figure out what is and isn't doable, and what is and isn't worth > doing. > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> > wrote: > >> Also on the list is a 'comments' capability so that learners can make >> comments and give rankings for the books they read from the school server >> library and which would be linked to the book entry on the school server. > > > Do you currently have a system in place for organizing books on the > schoolserver? I know on the Haiti IIAB release we have a searchable copy of > Project Gutenberg; I don't know how easy it is to add entries to that. In > the past, we just added books by creating another link that goes to a page > with a list of the PDF files available. But since we're looking at adding > at least 300 more books, plus whatever the texts the students are able to > write, so searching by title would be nice / necessary. We're also looking > for sorting by level and topic. Finally, the ability to comment and give > rankings is essential if you want students to start reading socially. If > you've made / plan to make any headway on the above, I'd love to hear more > about it. Thanks. >
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