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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)
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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* According to Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book Wikipedia 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 [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."


* 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."
Other languages: see [[Books/Spanish|Spanish]] (and [[Libros]]).
* 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."


== Using ==
Books may be available at no cost in electronic form if they are out of copyright (hence in the Public Domain), or if they are published under a Free license, such as [[GFDL]] or [[Creative Commons]]. The OLPC project was critically dependent on availability of books on every subject. We needed to talk to many textbook publishers about Creative Commons, and developing countries licenses for their books.


There are several ways to put books on an XO laptop:
= Book List =
* 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.


== Textbooks ==
== 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|list of books]].
=== Computer Science ===
{{activity-section-start}}


== Readers ==
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = [[Dive into Python]], an introduction to Python programming
|categories = Web, book, python, computer science
|maintainers = Seth Woodworth
|license = GFDL
|status =
|version = 1
|source-url = [[Image:Diveintopython.xol]]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .html
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{activity-section-end}}


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]].
=== Computer Algebra ===
{{activity-section-start}}


== Formats ==
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = Axiom Tutorial by Timothy Daly
|categories = Web, book, mathematics, computer algebra
|maintainers = Timothy Daly
|license = Modified BSD
|status =
|version = IBSN 1-4116-65097-X
|source-url = [http://daly.axiom-developer.org/bookvol1.pdf]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{activity-section-end}}


E-books come in different formats, for which a compatible reader is required. See the early [[/Formats|page on formats]].
=== Mathematics ===
See also: http://www.digitalculture.org/index.html and http://openmathtext.org/downloads.html

[http://www.businessbookmall.com/Test-Prep%20Mathematics.htm Test-Prep Mathematics] reviews GED level mathematics.

[http://www.businessbookmall.com/Statistics%20Book.htm Quick Note Statistics] outlines basic statistics.

{{activity-section-start}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon
|categories = Web, book, mathematics, linear algebra
|maintainers =
|license = CC-BY-SA
|status =
|version =
|source-url = [http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linalg.html/ joshua.smcvt.edu/linalg.html/]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = Linear algebra via exterior products, by Sergei Winitzki
|categories = Web, book, mathematics, linear algebra
|maintainers =
|license = GNU FDL
|status =
|version =
|source-url = [http://homepages.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~winitzki/Linear_algebra_exterior.pdf homepages.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~winitzki/Linear_algebra_exterior.pdf]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{activity-section-end}}

=== Calculus ===

{{activity-section-start}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = Mathematics under the Microscope by Alexandre V. Borovik
|categories = Web, book, mathematics, cognitive science, psychology
|maintainers =
|license = CC-BY-NC-ND2.0
|status =
|version = [0.919 http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~avb/micromathematics/MMW.pdf]
|source-url = [http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~avb/micromathematics/downloads www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~avb/micromathematics/downloads]


|builds =
|mimetypes = .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments = The book explores the intersection of mathematics and cognitive science.
}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = "Difference Equations to Differential Equations" An introduction to calculus, by Dan Sloughter
|categories = Web, book, calculus
|maintainers = [mailto:dan.sloughter@furman.edu Dan Sloughter]
|license = CC-BY-SA
|status =
|version =
|source-url = [http://math.furman.edu/~dcs/book/ math.furman.edu/~dcs/book]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .html, .pdf, .ps, .js, .class
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|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.
}}
* http://math.furman.edu/~dcs/mvbook/
* http://math.furman.edu/~dcs/yact/
* http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/~olegviro/ShchepinCalc.html
* http://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/multivariable
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = "Calculus" by Benjamin Crowell
|categories = Web, book, calculus
|maintainers = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area4author.html Ben Crowell]
|license = CC-BY-SA
|status =
|version =
|source-url = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/calc/ www.lightandmatter.com/calc/]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .html, .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = Elementary Calculus: An Approach Using Infinitesimals by Jerome H. Keisler
|categories = Web, book, calculus
|maintainers =
|license = CC-BY-NC-SA
|status =
|version =
|source-url = [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{activity-section-end}}

=== Music ===
{{activity-section-start}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = "Eyes and Ears" by Benjamin Crowell; an anthology of music for sight-singing
|categories = Web, book, music
|maintainers = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area4author.html Ben Crowell]
|license = CC-BY-SA
|status =
|version =
|source-url = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/sight/sight.html http://www.lightandmatter.com/sight/sight.html]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{activity-section-end}}

===Science===
*[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000056/005641e.pdf UNESCO Sourcebook for Science Teaching]
*in Spanish: <BR>[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000056/005641so.pdf Manual de la UNESCO para la enseñanza de las Ciencias]
*In French: <BR>[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000056/005641F.pdf Manuel de l'UNESCO pour l'Enseignement des Sciences]

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)

==== Physics ====
* 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.
* The Physics textbooks by [[User:76.93.42.50|Benjamin Crowell]]:
** Electricity and Magnetism
** The Modern Revolution in Physics
** Conceptual Physics
** Optics
** Conservation Laws
** Newtonian Physics

{{activity-section-start}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = "Motion Mountain - The Adventure of Physics" by Christoph Schiller; introductory physics text
|categories = Web, textbook, physics
|maintainers = [http://www.motionmountain.net/author.html Christoph Schiller]
|license = CC-BY-NC-ND
|status =
|version = 23rd edition, October 2009
|source-url = [http://www.motionmountain.net/download.html www.motionmountain.net/download.html]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments = with over 2000 pages, 700 figures and films, 1700 puzzles and challenges
}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = "Light and Matter" by Benjamin Crowell; college-level introductory physics for life science majors
|categories = Web, book, physics
|maintainers = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area4author.html Ben Crowell]
|license = CC-BY-SA
|status =
|version =
|source-url = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/books.html www.lightandmatter.com/books.html]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .html, .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = "Simple Nature" by Benjamin Crowell; introductory physics for engineering majors
|categories = Web, book, physics
|maintainers = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area4author.html Ben Crowell]
|license = CC-BY-SA
|status =
|version =
|source-url = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area1sn.html www.lightandmatter.com/area1sn.html]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .html, .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = "Conceptual Physics" by Benjamin Crowell; introductory physics for gen ed students
|categories = Web, book, physics
|maintainers = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/area4author.html Ben Crowell]
|license = CC-BY-SA
|status =
|version =
|source-url = [http://www.lightandmatter.com/cp/index.html http://www.lightandmatter.com/cp/index.html]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .html, .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics by David J. Raymond
|categories = Web, book, physics
|maintainers =
|license = CC-BY-SA
|status =
|version =
|source-url = http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond/classes/ph13xbook/node1.html
|builds =
|mimetypes = .html, .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{Activity-summary
|simplename = read
|packagename =
|prettyname =
|description = Radio Antenna Engineering by McGraw-Hill
|categories = Web, book, physics, radio
|maintainers =
|license = BY-NC-SA
|status =
|version =
|source-url = [http://snulbug.mtview.ca.us/books/RadioAntennaEngineering/]
|builds =
|mimetypes = .pdf
|l10n-notes =
|l10n-link =
|comments =
}}
{{activity-section-end}}

=== Psychology ===
...

=== Economics & Social Science ===
* http://www.introecon.com/
* [http://www.businessbookmall.com/Economics%20Notes.htm Economics I and II] outlines college level Economics. Links provided to make material current.
* ...

=== from Kerala ===
''jgay has some''
* http://www.toe.org/

== Literature and more ==
* [http://manybooks.net/ Manybooks], a tremendous improvement on raw Gutenberg texts
* [http://fictionbook-lib.org/ fictionbook-lib.org], library of free eBooks in fictionbook format

self-published
* [http://www.sancairodicopenhagen.com/tbpmd.html TBPMD] - not for children.

Baen Books Free Library
* [http://www.baen.com/library/ Baen Free Library] - Science Fiction and Fantasy are Available formats HTML, Ebookwise, Mobipocket, RTF, Microsoft Reader.

* [http://www.businessbookmall.com/Free%20Online%20Books%20Internet%20Library.htm Free Online Books Internet Library]

== Searches and collections ==
*[http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search?lr=&num=10&as_brr=1&as_libcat=0 Google Books Full View Search]
* [http://www.freetextbooks.eu/ Textbooksfree.org]
*[http://www.businessbookmall.com/Free%20Business%20Books.htm Free Business Textbooks]
*[http://www.businessbookmall.com/Free%20Nonbusiness%20Books.htm Free Nonbusiness Textbooks]

Creative Commons & license-savvy searches:
* http://search.yahoo.com/cc
* http://www.google.com/advanced_search

==Directories==
* [http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm Internet Public Library] Multilingual
* [http://librarianchick.pbwiki.com/ Librarian Chick]

==Sites==
* https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenberg] publishes mostly English material, nearly all in the Public Domain. (Some works copyrighted but freely distributable--not necessarily Free. For instance, [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a3826 Cory Doctorow's works] are CC-NC-ND.)
* [http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/ McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought]
* [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ The Perseus Digital Library] Classics in original languages and English translations, and more.
* [http://www.archive.org/ The Internet Archive] More than 300.000 books, principally from American and Canadian libraries. In PDF and djvu format.

== More Collections ==

Also working on the [[LiveContent]] DVD process:
* http://textbookrevolution.org
* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LiveContent_2.0

General texts
* http://www.textbooksfree.org/#Free_Internet_Libraries_
* http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html
* http://education.jimmyr.com/
* http://users.ictp.it/~stefanov/mylist.html
* http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
* http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html
* http://www.fhsst.org/
* http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html

General digital books:
* http://www.downloadfreepdf.com/
* http://www.ebooknetworking.com/
* http://www.freebookzone.com/
* http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video#play15184
* http://www.marxists.org/
* http://theassayer.org/

Libraries and search sites:
* http://www.bartleby.com/
* http://www.ipl.org/

Audiobooks:
* The [http://libravox.org/ Libravox directory] (including [[Librivox|Libr'''''i'''''vox]])

=== South Africa ===
''see the 16 books recently released in 6 languages''

== childrens books online ==

* eBook formats : Bob DuCharme has put epub versions of some of the [http://www.snee.com/epubkidsbooks/ Project Gutenberg Childrens Books] together.

*[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]

*[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]

* [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.

* [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.

* [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.

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!).

== terminology ==
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.

{{:Books/Formats}}
{{:Books/Renderers}}

=OLPC Features=
There are some pages already discussing how book formats and book readers could be specially adapted to the OLPC:

* [[book reader feature set]]
* [[Wiki as a book reader]]


== See also ==
== See also ==


* [[Books/Spanish|Spanish]] (and [[Libros]]),
* UNESCO [http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18610&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Online Books, Theses, Research Publications and newspapers]
* early discussion on [[Book reader]], and [[Book reader feature set|feature set]],
* the Wikibooks [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior Wikijunior project] of non-fiction books up to age 12,
* early discussion on using [[Wiki as a book reader]],
* [http://openeducationeuropa.eu/ Open Education Europa] launched by the European Commission in September 2013, offering access to European Open Educational Resources.
* [[Deployment Guide]] for how books can be put on the XO laptop prior to deployment, or as downloads once classes start.
* [http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/strategic-framework/education-technology_en.htm strategic framework] of education and training in European Commission,
* Collecting books to be put on the XO laptops is in a phase prior to a deployment, see [[Deployment Guide]].


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Latest revision as of 02:37, 26 June 2014

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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:

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

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