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Submit free books and their author/license/title metadata using the <tt>summary</tt> macro below, or on the [[Talk:Books|talk page]]! |
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We are no longer asking for books for inclusion in the XO laptop. Thank you all for your contributions! --[[User:Quozl|Quozl]] 01:07, 26 June 2014 (UTC) |
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For lists of available books, see '''[[Book lists]]'''. |
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Books are a concept, a collection format, a way of organizing ideas; including [[#Ebooks|ebooks]], textbooks, picturebooks and others. There are many sources of [[Free books]] in the public domain, or under [[GFDL]], various [[Creative Commons]], and other licenses. |
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* According to Wikipedia page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book Book] - "A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A set of text-filled or illustrated pages produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book, or e-book." |
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Other languages: see [[Books/Spanish|Spanish]] (and [[Libros]]), [[Books/Portuguese|Portuguese]] |
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* According to Wikipedia page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book E-book] - "An electronic book (variously: e-book, eBook, e-Book, ebook, digital book, or even e-edition) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices." |
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== Using == |
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== Textbooks == |
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=== Computer Science === |
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There are several ways to put books on an XO laptop: |
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* adding books to the [[Library]] as [[Collections]] using [[OSBuilder]], then deploying to laptops en-mass, suitable for large deployments, |
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* adding books after install but before use with the [[Customization stick]], or [[Tiny Core Linux]], suitable for small deployments, |
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* using the built-in [[Software update]] feature, |
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* by portable media such as a [[USB drive]], |
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|description = [[Dive into Python]], an introduction to Python programming |
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* by download from a [[School server]], appliance, or internet. |
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|categories = Web, book, python, computer science |
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|maintainers = Seth Woodworth |
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|license = GFDL |
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|status = |
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|version = 1 |
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|source-url = [[Image:Diveintopython.xol]] |
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|mimetypes = .html |
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== Lists == |
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During the early years of the project, before e-books were popular, we asked for a list of books, and the community responded. See our [[/List|list of books]]. |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|description = Axiom Tutorial by Timothy Daly |
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|categories = Web, book, mathematics, computer algebra |
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|maintainers = Timothy Daly |
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|license = Modified BSD |
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|status = |
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|version = IBSN 1-4116-65097-X |
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|source-url = [http://daly.axiom-developer.org/bookvol1.pdf] |
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|mimetypes = .pdf |
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== Readers == |
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See also: http://www.digitalculture.org/index.html and http://openmathtext.org/downloads.html |
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An e-book reader is software that displays the book for reading. The XO laptop includes readers, and other readers are available. See the early [[/Renderers|page on readers]]. |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|description = Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon |
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|categories = Web, book, mathematics, linear algebra |
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|maintainers = |
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|license = CC-BY-SA |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = [http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linalg.html/ joshua.smcvt.edu/linalg.html/] |
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|builds = |
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|mimetypes = .pdf |
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|l10n-notes = |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|prettyname = |
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|description = Linear algebra via exterior products, by Sergei Winitzki |
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|categories = Web, book, mathematics, linear algebra |
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|maintainers = |
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|license = GNU FDL |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = [http://homepages.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~winitzki/Linear_algebra_exterior.pdf homepages.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~winitzki/Linear_algebra_exterior.pdf] |
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|builds = |
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|mimetypes = .pdf |
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|l10n-notes = |
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== Formats == |
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E-books come in different formats, for which a compatible reader is required. See the early [[/Formats|page on formats]]. |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|description = Mathematics under the Microscope by Alexandre V. Borovik |
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|categories = Web, book, mathematics, cognitive science, psychology |
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|maintainers = |
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|license = CC-BY-NC-ND2.0 |
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|status = |
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|version = [0.919 http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~avb/micromathematics/MMW.pdf] |
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|source-url = [http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~avb/micromathematics/downloads www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~avb/micromathematics/downloads] |
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|builds = |
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|mimetypes = .pdf |
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|l10n-notes = |
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|l10n-link = |
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|comments = The book explores the intersection of mathematics and cognitive science. |
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}} |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|prettyname = |
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|description = "Difference Equations to Differential Equations" An introduction to calculus, by Dan Sloughter |
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|categories = Web, book, calculus |
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|maintainers = [mailto:dan.sloughter@furman.edu Dan Sloughter] |
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|license = CC-BY-SA |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = [http://math.furman.edu/~dcs/book/ math.furman.edu/~dcs/book] |
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|builds = |
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|mimetypes = .html, .pdf, .ps, .js, .class |
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|l10n-notes = |
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|l10n-link = |
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|comments = The book is split into sections, with each section being its own PDF. There are links to solutions. There are Java Applets for some sections. |
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}} |
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* http://math.furman.edu/~dcs/mvbook/ |
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* http://math.furman.edu/~dcs/yact/ |
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* http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/~olegviro/ShchepinCalc.html |
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* http://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/multivariable |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|prettyname = |
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|description = "Calculus" by Benjamin Crowell |
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|categories = Web, book, calculus |
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|maintainers = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area4author.html Ben Crowell] |
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|license = CC-BY-SA |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/calc/ www.lightandmatter.com/calc/] |
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|mimetypes = .html, .pdf |
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}} |
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{{Activity-summary |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|prettyname = |
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|description = Elementary Calculus: An Approach Using Infinitesimals by Jerome H. Keisler |
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|categories = Web, book, calculus |
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|maintainers = |
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|license = CC-BY-NC-SA |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html] |
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|builds = |
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|mimetypes = .pdf |
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|l10n-notes = |
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|l10n-link = |
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|comments = |
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}} |
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== See also == |
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{{Activity-summary |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|prettyname = |
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|description = "Eyes and Ears" by Benjamin Crowell; an anthology of music for sight-singing |
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|categories = Web, book, music |
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|maintainers = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area4author.html Ben Crowell] |
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|license = CC-BY-SA |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/sight/sight.html http://www.lightandmatter.com/sight/sight.html] |
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|mimetypes = .pdf |
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* [[Books/Spanish|Spanish]] (and [[Libros]]), |
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===Science=== |
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* early discussion on [[Book reader]], and [[Book reader feature set|feature set]], |
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*[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000056/005641e.pdf UNESCO Sourcebook for Science Teaching] |
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* early discussion on using [[Wiki as a book reader]], |
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*in Spanish: <BR>[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000056/005641so.pdf Manual de la UNESCO para la enseñanza de las Ciencias] |
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* [[Deployment Guide]] for how books can be put on the XO laptop prior to deployment, or as downloads once classes start. |
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*In French: <BR>[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000056/005641F.pdf Manuel de l'UNESCO pour l'Enseignement des Sciences] |
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All have tested OK on Read on a G1G1 machine, except the Read interface takes a lot of usable space [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 12:56, 24 June 2008 (UTC) |
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==== Physics ==== |
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* The Motion Mountain Physics Texbook, 1612 free pages at http://www.motionmountain.net/download.html, with many figures, tables and embedded animations, also downloadable in 6 separate parts, CC-NC-ND licence. |
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* The Physics textbooks by [[User:76.93.42.50|Benjamin Crowell]]: |
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** Electricity and Magnetism |
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** The Modern Revolution in Physics |
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** Conceptual Physics |
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** Optics |
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** Conservation Laws |
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** Newtonian Physics |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|description = "Motion Mountain - The Adventure of Physics" by Christoph Schiller; introductory physics text |
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|categories = Web, textbook, physics |
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|maintainers = [http://www.motionmountain.net/author.html Christoph Schiller] |
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|license = CC-BY-NC-ND |
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|status = |
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|version = 22nd edition, January 2009 |
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|source-url = [http://www.motionmountain.net/download.html www.motionmountain.net/download.html] |
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|mimetypes = .pdf |
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|l10n-link = |
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|comments = with 1612 pages, 620 figures and films, 1700 puzzles and challenges |
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}} |
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{{Activity-summary |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|description = "Light and Matter" by Benjamin Crowell; college-level introductory physics for life science majors |
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|categories = Web, book, physics |
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|maintainers = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area4author.html Ben Crowell] |
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|license = CC-BY-SA |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/books.html www.lightandmatter.com/books.html] |
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|builds = |
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|mimetypes = .html, .pdf |
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|l10n-notes = |
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}} |
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{{Activity-summary |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|prettyname = |
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|description = "Simple Nature" by Benjamin Crowell; introductory physics for engineering majors |
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|categories = Web, book, physics |
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|maintainers = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area4author.html Ben Crowell] |
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|license = CC-BY-SA |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area1sn.html www.lightandmatter.com/area1sn.html] |
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|builds = |
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|mimetypes = .html, .pdf |
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{{Activity-summary |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|prettyname = |
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|description = "Conceptual Physics" by Benjamin Crowell; introductory physics for gen ed students |
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|categories = Web, book, physics |
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|maintainers = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area4author.html Ben Crowell] |
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|license = CC-BY-SA |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/cp/index.html http://www.lightandmatter.com/cp/index.html] |
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|builds = |
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|mimetypes = .html, .pdf |
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|l10n-notes = |
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{{Activity-summary |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|prettyname = |
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|description = A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics by David J. Raymond |
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|categories = Web, book, physics |
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|license = CC-BY-SA |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond/classes/ph13xbook/node1.html |
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|mimetypes = .html, .pdf |
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{{Activity-summary |
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|simplename = read |
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|packagename = |
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|prettyname = |
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|description = Radio Antenna Engineering by McGraw-Hill |
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|categories = Web, book, physics, radio |
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|license = BY-NC-SA |
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|status = |
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|version = |
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|source-url = [http://snulbug.mtview.ca.us/books/RadioAntennaEngineering/] |
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|mimetypes = .pdf |
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|l10n-notes = |
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=== Psychology === |
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... |
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=== Economics & Social Science === |
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* http://www.introecon.com/ |
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* [http://www.businessbookmall.com/Economics%20Notes.htm Economics I and II] outlines college level Economics. Links provided to make material current. |
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* ... |
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=== from Kerala === |
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''jgay has some'' |
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* http://www.toe.org/ |
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=== Cross-curricular/intermedia === |
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By linking a book with the Internet, teaching books are transformed into a huge dynamic ecosystem of knowledge and allows children to see our world in a global context. A concept that connects worlds; multimedia, intercultural and interdisciplinary as well as classical education and New Media. |
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Read a book and be connected with the world: |
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* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Online_Schoolbook_%22GOLD_DUST%22 Explore the Online Schoolbook GOLD DUST]- passion for learning awakening |
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== Literature and more == |
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* [http://manybooks.net/ Manybooks], a tremendous improvement on raw Gutenberg texts |
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* [http://fictionbook-lib.org/ fictionbook-lib.org], library of free eBooks in fictionbook format |
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self-published |
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* [http://www.sancairodicopenhagen.com/tbpmd.html TBPMD] - not for children. |
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Baen Books Free Library |
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* [http://www.baen.com/library/ Baen Free Library] - Science Fiction and Fantasy |
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* Available formats HTML, Ebookwise, Mobipocket, RTF, Microsoft Reader |
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== Searches and collections == |
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*[http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search?lr=&num=10&as_brr=1&as_libcat=0 Google Books Full View Search] |
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* [http://www.freetextbooks.eu/ Textbooksfree.org] |
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*[http://www.businessbookmall.com/Free%20Business%20Books.htm Free Business Textbooks] |
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*[http://www.businessbookmall.com/Free%20Nonbusiness%20Books.htm Free Nonbusiness Textbooks] |
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Creative Commons & license-savvy searches: |
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* http://search.yahoo.com/cc |
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* http://www.google.com/advanced_search |
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== More Collections == |
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Also working on the [[LiveContent]] DVD process: |
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* http://textbookrevolution.org |
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* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LiveContent_2.0 |
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General texts |
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* http://www.textbooksfree.org/#Free_Internet_Libraries_ |
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* http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html |
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* http://education.jimmyr.com/ |
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* http://users.ictp.it/~stefanov/mylist.html |
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* http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page |
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* http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html |
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* [http://www.businessbookmall.com/Free%20Business%20Books.htm Free Business Books] |
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* http://www.fhsst.org/ |
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* http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html |
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General digital books: |
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* http://www.downloadfreepdf.com/ |
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* http://www.ebooknetworking.com/ |
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* http://www.freebookzone.com/ |
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* http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video#play15184 |
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* http://www.marxists.org/ |
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* http://theassayer.org/ |
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Libraries and search sites: |
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* http://www.bartleby.com/ |
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* http://www.ipl.org/ |
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Audiobooks: |
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* The [http://libravox.org/ Libravox directory] (including [[Librivox|Libr'''''i'''''vox]]) |
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=== South Africa === |
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''see the 16 books recently released in 6 languages'' |
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== childrens books online == |
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* eBook formats : Bob DuCharme has put epub versions of some of the [http://www.snee.com/epubkidsbooks/ Project Gutenberg Childrens Books] together. |
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*[http://books.google.com/books?lr=&num=20&as_brr=1&q=subject%3A%22Juvenile+Fiction%22&btnG=Search+Books Children's Fiction] from [http://books.google.com Google Books] |
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*[http://books.google.com/books?lr=&num=20&as_brr=1&q=subject%3A%22Juvenile+Nonfiction%22&btnG=Search+Books Children's Non Fiction] from [http://books.google.com Google Books] |
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* [http://www.schoollibrary.com/OLPC/ World Public Library] has made more than 1,000 eBooks freely available to the public specifically gathered for OLPC folks. Please visit to download the titles. |
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* [http://bluesock.org/~willg/cgi-bin/booktrac.cgi/wiki/BeeCarefulMarvin Bee Careful, Marvin] Children's book about a bee named Marvin released under a CC license. |
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* [http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/docust5.shtml The Andy Holt Virtual Library "Docustack"] is hosted by the university of Tennessee at Martin, and focuses on children's literature. |
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See also The OLPC [[literature]] page, with links to sites offering collections of free (Public Domain out-of-copyright) and commercial Ebooks in many languages. There are also specific '''[[Ebook collections|book collections]]''' being developed by libraries and archives for OLPC (add your own!). |
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== terminology == |
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A "digital book" is a book that is stored in a computer and read on a computer screen. These are sometimes called "ebooks", but we refer to digital books simply as "books". Books are data without a reader application. (This last point is stretched somewhat by recent versions of Adobe Acrobat's [[PDF]] reader which can handle embedded Javascript applications in a [[PDF]] document and for HTML files containing Javascript). There is a place for rich documents containing their own reader code, but these blur the line between activities with lots of data and books as such. |
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=Digital book formats= |
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Book formats should be compressed (to conserve space) and open. In particular, they must not be encumbered by patents, and must be inclusive - they should not favor any particular vendor. |
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See [[wikipedia:Comparison of e-book formats]] for a more comprehensive list. |
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==HTML== |
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Although not particularly designed as a book format, HTML is widely used for books. |
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Most newer [[Project Gutenberg]] books are available as HTML. Both special purpose Ebook readers and web browsers can be used to access HTML Ebooks. |
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=== HTML eBook packaging formats === |
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HTML/XHTML has basically "won" as the presentation format for commercial and newly-published eBooks. |
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Most eBook formats are just subsets or supersets of HTML or XHTML, using standard tags like <nowiki><p>, <img>, <h1>, etc.</nowiki> |
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The debate has moved on to the organization and representation of such files for offline self-contained viewing. |
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* OLPC's own [[Sample library.info file|.xol]] bundle format for [[Collections]] is a download format that the Journal unpacks and adds to the [[Library]] in [[Browse]]. |
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* The [http://www.idpf.org/ International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)] promotes a <tt>.epub</tt> XML file format, see [http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/16/epub-demystified-tomorrows-e-book-reader-the-web-browser/ ePub demystified]. |
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* In that, Bill Janssen comments "On the eBabel front, let’s examine the <i>other</i> web site packaging formats." Googling for [http://www.google.com/search?q=web%20page%20archive%20format&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 “web page archive format”]] gives one an interesting list |
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** Microsoft’s [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2557.txt MHTML], introduced in IE 5, documented in RFC 2557, and apparently also supported by the Opera browser. |
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** Apple’s [[wikipedia:Webarchive|WebArchive]], used by Safari. |
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** The Library of Congress’ [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000236.shtml WARC], which they’re using to preserve Web site captures, and is a draft ISO standard. |
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** WARC is based on [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000235.shtml ARC_IA], the format used by the Internet Archive. |
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** There’s also [http://maf.mozdev.org/ MAF], the Mozilla Archive Format for Firefox 3, Christopher Ottley’s project. |
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* the [[WikiBrowse]] activity is a web server that serves content from a compressed MediaWiki dump, forming a self-contained browsable offline wikireader |
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==XML== |
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XML is not a directly usable format, but rather a meta-format. XML alone is not a book format, but many modern formats that can be used for books are XML based, such as ODF, and the XHTML variant of HTML. Other XML based formats are [http://www.docbook.org/ DocBook], popular for computer manuals, or [http://www.tei-c.org/ TEI], used in the Humanities. Modern web browsers can render XML directly, but to make such a display attractive some transform (expressed in CSS or XSLT) may be required. |
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==Text / ASCII / Unicode== |
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The most basic format, can be compressed with simple/standard compression programs if needed. Original and default format for the [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:File_Formats_FAQ#ASCII Project Gutenberg] e-texts. |
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[[Browse]] and the [[Read Etexts]] activity can render text files. [[Read]] also can but it opens them for editing. |
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==DejaVU== |
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The [[DJVU]] format was developed in order to provide a much higher level of compression for scanned paper books, than existing formats like JPEG and TIFF can provide. |
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==PDF== |
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The [[PDF]] format is a simplified form of the Postscript programming language that only includes the commands necessary to paint ink on the page. It is easy for end users to create PDFs with the Print function of a word processing or drawing application. There are extensive Free/Open Source libraries of functions for creating, editing, and otherwise modifying PDFS, and applications built from them. For example, libpoppler and the Poppler PDF Utilities. There are also several Free PDF display programs, including xpdf, kpdf, evince, gv, and ViewPDF. The [[Read]] activity uses Evince and poppler to render PDFs. |
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==OpenDocument== |
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[[OpenDocument Viewer|OpenDocument]] is a compressed format (zip-compressed XML) for documents, including books, presentations, and spreadsheets. Complex documents (with many images) can be sent as a single document (unlike HTML), yet it can flow in a display (unlike PDF). It is also editable. The [[Write]] activity on the XO uses libAbiword and can open ODF files. |
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==Greenstone== |
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[http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library Greenstone] is a monolithic format for document collections. A Greenstone library allows quick full-text search access to large collections, and is typically smaller than the full-text it contains, due to the compression scheme it uses. A Greenstone library can be both accessed via a web server or locally on a (read-only) disk. A complete Greenstone collection can be large, which makes it less useful, given the storage constraints of the OLPC. |
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==FictionBook== |
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"[http://www.fictionbook.org/index.php/Eng:FictionBook FictionBook] is an XML format for storage of books where each element of the book is described by tags." Also known as fb2, it is supported by FBReader. In fact, the [http://www.fbreader.org/about.php FBReader website] lists other book formats that are not listed here. |
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==DVI / TeX== |
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DeVice Independent format. Output of a typesetting system called TeX that is very widely used in academic and open source technical literature. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI_file_format wikipedia] for more information. |
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=Book Readers= |
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== On the XO == |
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===Browse=== |
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The [[Browse]] activity renders HTML, XHTML, and most image formats. |
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The users's home page in Browse is the "OLPC [[Library]]", which presents a navigation bar of available [[Collections]] on the XO. |
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===Read/Evince=== |
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The [[Read]] activity uses the [[Evince]] library to render, and has a modified UI targeted to kids. |
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Evince supports various [[image file formats]] including [[DJVU]], [[PDF]], [TIFF], and DVI with appropriate library support. |
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Read in release [[8.2.0]] supports primarily PDF. |
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See [[choosing image formats]]. |
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=== Write === |
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The [[Write]] activity uses libAbiword which can render ODF .odt files. |
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''Unclear if it can open them in read-only format suitable for eBook reading'' |
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== Other book readers == |
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===Plucker=== |
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A popular book format for PalmOS devices. A [http://cvs.plkr.org/index.cgi/viewer-GTK%2B2-POSIX/ reader for Linux/X11/GTK+] already exists in the plkr.org CVS codebase (and is distributed in the Plucker 1.8 source tarfile). It should run on OLPC machine's OS. Most [[Project Gutenberg]] books are already available in Plucker format at the URL |
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<pre>http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/plucker/NUMBER/NUMBER</pre> |
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where NUMBER is the PG book number for that book. For instance, John Stuart Mill's autobiography is available from PG in Plucker format as http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/plucker/10378/10378. |
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===FBReader=== |
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An open source Ebook reader supporting many formats (fb2, html, chm, plucker, Palmdoc, mobipocket, etc.). [http://www.fbreader.org/about.php more about FBReader] |
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===OpenBerg=== |
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[http://www.openberg.org OpenBerg] Reader is a multiformat book reader based on Mozilla technologies. It's far from complete but it can already display rich XML/HTML books and organize libraries. Livesearch is in the works, as well as Plucker compatibility. The project could use help. |
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===OpenDocument Viewer=== |
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The ODF Fellowship's [[OpenDocument Viewer]] could be used as a reader for OpenDocument files. |
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It is open source. |
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===yBook=== |
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[http://www.spacejock.com/yBook_Download.html yBook] A Free windows-only reader. With a book-like layout, it's a very comfortable reader to use. |
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=OLPC Features= |
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There are some pages already discussing how book formats and book readers could be specially adapted to the OLPC: |
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* [[book reader feature set]] |
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* [[Wiki as a book reader]] |
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[[Category:Developers]] |
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[[Category:Software ideas]] |
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[[Category:File formats]] |
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Latest revision as of 02:37, 26 June 2014
We are no longer asking for books for inclusion in the XO laptop. Thank you all for your contributions! --Quozl 01:07, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
- According to Wikipedia page Book - "A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A set of text-filled or illustrated pages produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book, or e-book."
- According to Wikipedia page E-book - "An electronic book (variously: e-book, eBook, e-Book, ebook, digital book, or even e-edition) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices."
Using
There are several ways to put books on an XO laptop:
- adding books to the Library as Collections using OSBuilder, then deploying to laptops en-mass, suitable for large deployments,
- adding books after install but before use with the Customization stick, or Tiny Core Linux, suitable for small deployments,
- using the built-in Software update feature,
- by portable media such as a USB drive,
- by download from a School server, appliance, or internet.
Lists
During the early years of the project, before e-books were popular, we asked for a list of books, and the community responded. See our list of books.
Readers
An e-book reader is software that displays the book for reading. The XO laptop includes readers, and other readers are available. See the early page on readers.
Formats
E-books come in different formats, for which a compatible reader is required. See the early page on formats.
See also
- Spanish (and Libros),
- early discussion on Book reader, and feature set,
- early discussion on using Wiki as a book reader,
- Deployment Guide for how books can be put on the XO laptop prior to deployment, or as downloads once classes start.