[ilugd] NCERT Books online
I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Great initiaitive by the Govt. though their website is a bit messed up in Firefox. Please spread the word! -- Anupam ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online
Anupam Jain ajn...@... writes: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Great initiaitive by the Govt. though their website is a bit messed up in Firefox. Excellent initiative. Lack of education is one of the important things keeping India from progressing. At the moment each book is just showing content pages. And the devanagri fonts need some ironing out still. PJ lugdelhi dot to dot peejay at spamgourmet dot com ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Anupam Jainajn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Thats really are good efforts by NCERT and team. The good thing is both hindi and english versions are available for the students. The website have also mentioned some CDs pack for class IX-XII, anyone known where these can be bought online or at a shop in Delhi? Regards, Yash ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Great Initiative by GoI. But I am just curious, what is it's use?? Regards, Smruti ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:33:23AM -0700, Smruti wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Great Initiative by GoI. But I am just curious, what is it's use?? These are frivolous reasons, but reasons all the same. For one, I can read it for pleasure (I have heard good things about the IX and X Hindi textbooks). But more importantly, you really needn't wait for the textbooks to be printed before the academic year. Having been a CBSE student in less-than-metro towns, I have experienced delays in NCERT textbooks being available in time before the start of school. At least now, I can print out the first chapter and/or get it photo copied (I hope that is legal). And, in any case, there isn't any _harm_ in making PDFs of the books available. Who knows, with e-book readers entering the market, we could envision people taking a single e-book reader to school, rather than having to carry a school bag with loads of books! Kumar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Kumar Appaiaha.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: [...] And, in any case, there isn't any _harm_ in making PDFs of the books available. Who knows, with e-book readers entering the market, we could envision people taking a single e-book reader to school, rather than having to carry a school bag with loads of books! We need a One Kindle Per Child initiative now! Amazon should make cheaper ones. --- Regards n9986 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Great Initiative by GoI. But I am just curious, what is it's use?? Practical - Students can get them printed out in really tiny font on slips of paper to be used at opportune moments during exams :) Or more seriously, read them on their phones, carry them around on usb sticks, make corrections or add their own notes, or customise the content to their own preferences. I know a lot of these are not possible now , but this is a first step. Philosophical - For me buying NCERT books used to be a real pain.. Supply always used to outstrip demand and unscrupulous vendors would sell previous year's books by relabelling the price and year fields.. NCERT books need to be as free and as widely accessible as possible and this is again a step in that direction. Personal - For better or worse, I have a sentimental attachment for the stuff I read in my school days.. I really wish I had saved all those books (I didn't because I hated them back then!).. The books have changed now and I have less enthusiasm for these PDFs, but I'm sure they are valued by someone else, who would be delighted to be able to save them in pristine form for a long time to come.. -- Anupam ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online
At the moment each book is just showing content pages. And the devanagri fonts need some ironing out still. All the chapters are available. The idiot who designed the setup doesn't realize how broken it is. Each of the book links gives you a PDF with the contents, right? Open this PDF in evince. For each of the chapters, copy the chapter link from the content and paste it after the domain name. The person who created this assumed that the browser would open the PDF embedded and the absolute URIs (without the hostname) would probably open correctly. I can almost see the minister standing beside this guy nodding while he gleefully clicks on the contents page on his computer to get to the other chapters. e.g. class XII maths 1 1. Download content.pdf and open in evince. 2. Copy the link of first chapter: /book_publishing/NEW BOOK 2007/class12/PDF Class12 math I/Relations and Functions ch 1.pdf 3. Paste it in the browser after http://www.ncert.nic.in so that the full URL becomes http://www.ncert.nic.in/book_publishing/NEW BOOK 2007/class12/PDF Class12 math I/Relations and Functions ch 1.pdf (Don't click on the link above. Use copy-paste. Spaces are not escaped) - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
