Hi Caryl, I've been offline and Gary said what I wanted to say ;-) Any additions to this wiki list resource will be greatly appreciated.
Mirabelle was a 180° turn from our focus on e-book readers with Blueberry because the importance of e-readers was not obvious to the developers. And, a serious bug issue related to the Read Activity was discovered late in the cycle due to the slimness of our testing effort. The Sugar Creation Kit (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit) mitigates this situation by supplying previous versions of Sugar on a Stick, Activities, tools and documentation in one place. Work is being done to restore e-reader functionality for the next version of SoaS and I will be helping organize testing sprints so critical issues like this are uncovered earlier on. Sean On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Gary Martin <garycmar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Caryl, > This is the page we were building up in the last Blueberry SoaS release, > unfortunately the recent Mirabelle SoaS release included a new version of > evence that badly broke Sugar's PDF support (Read). About the most > basic/critical feature for an educational platform was lost... :( > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/E-Books > Regards, > --Gary > > On 24 Jun 2010, at 20:17, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > A few days ago I asked for links to sites with free digital textbooks. > Thanks to all who sent links. I thought it would be a good idea to put them > all in one place and share them with you all. (I'm sorry the formatting of > this page seems to have a mind of its own!) > > From Tabitha Roder (tabi...@tabitha.net.nz)International Childrens Digital > Library (some other languages also available) > > http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ > > From Avash Mulmi (avash.mu...@olenepal.org) in Nepal, but will lots of > children's books in English as well. Put "English" in the search box and you > will get some in English. > > http://www.pustakalaya.org > > From Abhishek Indoria (indoria_abhis...@hotmail.com) > > You need to register first (free) for this one. And, you must have a gmail > account to use this site. Then, you can login. Please choose gigapedia from > the search menu at the upper right corner of the site after you log in, and > search for any book you like. Also, please visit the site's categories page > to sort through them. It has more than 3 million books! > > http://gigapedia.com . > > And, here are 3 more sent without comments: > > From Edward Cherlin (echer...@gmail.com) > > http://www.librarianchick.com/ > > From (fors...@ozonline.com.au) > > http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/227 > > From Nicholas Doiron (ndoi...@andrew.cmu.edu) Audio versions of free ebooks. > > http://librivox.org/newcatalog/ > > I'll add a link from the California digital textbook project. So far the > books are only for high school math and science, but the quality is > excellent: > > http://about.ck12.org/ > > Kevin Mark (kevin.m...@verizon.net) suggested that there needs to be a site > where there is a list of books available with evaluations. Sounds like a > great idea for some one to pick up on. > > Check them out and let me know if you find anything you like. > > Cheers! > > Caryl OLPC Support Volunteer. > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas