Rebecca, thanks for the update. That is indeed a great place to recommend books for scanning. I wonder if the BPL would be interested in an on-location set of XOs to display the s-o-d results.
--SJ On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent, SJ! > > Someone directed me to the International Children's Digital Library ( > http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ ) as a possible source for content. I > haven't contacted them yet - but will. > > Also, I am working with Open Library on a partnership project with BPL > (Boston Public Library) known as Scan-On-Demand: > > http://openlibrary.org/bpl > > There are some children's books - unfortunately, they aren't categorized by > subject (yet) - fortunately, I am redesigning that page :-) - I am building > a similar collection of the "best of" books from what we have scanned - I > will send the Library-OLPC list anything I find - > > In the meantime, feel free to queue up any books you find interesting for > scanning! > > Best Regards, > > Rebecca Malamud > > > > > At 3:34 AM -0500 1/15/09, Samuel Klein wrote: >> >> A quick update about the gnubook ajax bookreader : I'm talking to the >> developer, Raj Kumar about how to improve the experience on the XO. >> >> you can test out the latest reader here: >> http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader >> http://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/tree/master >> >> and file feature requests and bugs here: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnubook >> >> Please recommend specific books from the Internet Archive you'd like >> to see tested on the demo site; particularly from the children's >> library collection and this set, many of which Rebecca has tracked >> down: >> http://openlibrary.org/details/rightreadingforc00welsrich/leaf33 >> >> >> Cheers, >> SJ >> _______________________________________________ >> Testing mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing > > _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
