[IAEP] Tonight's Question: Read vs Read ETexts?

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi All...


I haven't given up on os180py yet. I am doing the downloads again to a 
different usb stick.  It is going better. No stalls yet, just the seventh blink 
on the drive is always a bit longer than the rest. Strange.


Saturday I need to show someone via Skype how to use the XO as a book reader.  
So far no luck with it.  I have tried both the Read Activity and the Read E 
Texts Activity and can't seem to get either to work well.  Are there any really 
good instructions anywhere for these?  I have been telling folks everywhere how 
the XO makes a great book reader, but haven't tried it in ages!  Am I lying to 
them?


My Journal has also been acting strange. It keeps going into a mode where it 
doesn't show everything... even when asked for it.  Maybe I just need to 
reflash.


Any and all help will be appreciated.


Meanwhile, my os180py download just finished.  I'm going to try it now.


Cheers!
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Re: [IAEP] Tonight's Question: Read vs Read ETexts?

[Tim McNamara]

On 25 June 2010 14:39, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:

  Saturday I need to show someone via Skype how to use the XO as a book
 reader.  So far no luck with it.  I have tried both the Read Activity and
 the Read E Texts Activity and can't seem to get either to work well.  Are
 there any really good instructions anywhere for these?  I have been telling
 folks everywhere how the XO makes a great book reader, but haven't tried it
 in ages!  Am I lying to them?


Here are some pointers that may assist:


   - With Read, open downloaded documents from the Journal, not directly
   from the Activity itself. [1]
   - ebook formats can be tricky - some ebook formats are designed to be
   read by a particular type of device. XOs are highly unlikely to high up on
   the supported device list.
   - From memory, those Activities (possibly just Read E Texts) are derived
   from FBReader[1]. FBReader can open many several formats, but only a few are
   supported fully.[2] This means that it will display text, but that display
   may not be pretty.

Also, does No luck with it mean that nothing opens at all, or does it mean
that files open but they are poorly rendered? If things are opening but they
look ugly, it's probably a software issue. If things are not opening at all,
you are probably trying to open ebooks in a way Sugar doesn't understand.

Best of luck!

Tim


[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read#How_to_use
[2] http://www.fbreader.org/
[3] http://www.fbreader.org/docs/formats.php



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