Jim Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> writes: > What might be more suited to Caroline's purposes is a demo of Get > Internet Archive Books, followed by demoing reading the downloaded > book in Read. In Fedora 11 I can use the Read Activity (I couldn't in > any other Sugar test environment I ever had). The advantage of doing > this is the books have pictures.
I downloaded latest version of GIAB from activities.sugarlabs.org. I downloaded a few books in .djvu format (it seems this is the main format available in Internet Archive) but couldn't open it in Read. Shall I search for other books in other formats? > Caroline is trying to sell Sugar itself, so we want to show reading > for children at it's best. Since Gutenberg etexts are without > pictures, plus we would have to explain why it is that we have more > than one Activity for reading (something there is no need for them to > know at this time) I think this is the way to go. So do I. > If you go to the Internet Archive website you should be able to get a > list of children's books that you could search for with GIAB. > Caroline might suggest some that are not controversial. I just found > out that the Oz books have been banned in a few places. There is a > book "Abroad" which is quite beautiful and might be considered for a > demo. Caroline, can you provide a link to such a book in IA, one that I read in Read? Thanks! -- Bastien _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel