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The '''Get Books''' activity lets users find and download epub and pdf books to read, from the 1.8 million texts in the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, and FeedBooks. |
The '''Get Books''' activity lets users find and download epub and pdf books to read, from the 1.8 million texts in the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, and FeedBooks. |
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For the latest version of the activity, see: |
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* [http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/GetBooks-3.xo Get Books] v.3 (by sayamindu) |
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* [http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/GetBooks-3.xo Get Books] v.3 (sayamindu) |
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Theis activity has support for book collections on removable USB sticks -- or "books on a stick". To test this out, install Get Books and unzip the following onto a USB stick: [http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/books_on_a_stick.zip books on a stick.zip] ... then follow these instructions: ''[http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-November/020643.html Sayamindu's email, Nov 2009]'' |
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== Other versions == |
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Other versions of this activity that only draw from a subset of these sources also exist. |
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* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4194 Get Internet Archive Books], v.3 (james simmons) |
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Latest revision as of 12:50, 24 May 2010
The Get Books activity lets users find and download epub and pdf books to read, from the 1.8 million texts in the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, and FeedBooks.
For the latest version of the activity, see:
- Get Books v.3 (by sayamindu)
Theis activity has support for book collections on removable USB sticks -- or "books on a stick". To test this out, install Get Books and unzip the following onto a USB stick: books on a stick.zip ... then follow these instructions: Sayamindu's email, Nov 2009
Other versions
Other versions of this activity that only draw from a subset of these sources also exist.
- Get Internet Archive Books, v.3 (james simmons)