Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
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 evin

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Smruti wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Anupam Jain 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 Initia

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Nandeep Mali
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Kumar Appaiah 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 sc

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:33:23AM -0700, Smruti wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Anupam Jain 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. > > > > Grea

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Smruti
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Anupam Jain 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

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Anupam Jain 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 a

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Pawan
Anupam Jain 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

[ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Anupam Jain
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 ___