Comments on: Books, Sugar and OLPC http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/10/14/books-sugar-and-olpc/ The weekend hacker's musings... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:25:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: James Simmons http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/10/14/books-sugar-and-olpc/comment-page-1/#comment-87062 James Simmons Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:42:34 +0000 http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/?p=448#comment-87062 Read Etexts can be used to read any plain text file, not just those from Project Gutenberg. The most recent version supports word wrap for texts that need it. View Slides can read .cbz files without installing any other software, and like Read Etexts it works in Sugar .82 so you can use them on your XO. Both programs currently support multiple bookmarks and page annotations. Read Etexts also supports highlighting passages (yellow background plus underline) and text to speech with word highlighting. Read Etexts has its own built in book search based on offline catalogs provided by Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg Australia. It's not as good as an OPDS solution would be, but as a stopgap its pretty handy. Read Etexts can be used to read any plain text file, not just those from Project Gutenberg. The most recent version supports word wrap for texts that need it.

View Slides can read .cbz files without installing any other software, and like Read Etexts it works in Sugar .82 so you can use them on your XO.

Both programs currently support multiple bookmarks and page annotations. Read Etexts also supports highlighting passages (yellow background plus underline) and text to speech with word highlighting.

Read Etexts has its own built in book search based on offline catalogs provided by Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg Australia. It’s not as good as an OPDS solution would be, but as a stopgap its pretty handy.

]]> By: Juanjo Marin http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/10/14/books-sugar-and-olpc/comment-page-1/#comment-87054 Juanjo Marin Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:57:52 +0000 http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/?p=448#comment-87054 Evince as well reads cbr and cb7 files and cbt files support is on the queu [1] The implementations are based on third party compression tools. The problem with cbr files is that the best one tool is freeware, not free software. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588266 Evince as well reads cbr and cb7 files and cbt files support is on the queu [1]

The implementations are based on third party compression tools. The problem with cbr files is that the best one tool is freeware, not free software.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588266

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