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-The main site for information on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djvu DJVU] compression format for ebooks is here http://www.djvuzone.org/
-In a nutshell, DJVU was invented to solve this problem:
-:Conventional web formats such as JPEG, GIF, and PNG produce prohibitively large image files at decent resolution. As a result, Web site content developers have been largely unable to leverage existing printed materials.
-DJVU is intended to be used with scanned images of book pages, either black & white or full color. It then compresses those scanned pages to produce [http://www.djvuzone.org/wid/index.html very highly compressed files].
-Given that the target countries for the OLPC have poorly developed computing infrastructures, scanning of existing printed documents into DJVU format may be the fastest way of making a wide variety of educational material and [[Ebooks]] available to the kids.
-DJVU is supported by the [[Evince]] reader which is being used by the OLPC project.
-If you want to contribute to the DJVU project in any way, here is the site:
-http://djvulibre.djvuzone.org/