Read Etexts
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Description & Goals
The Read Etexts activity is meant to allow the XO laptop to read Project Gutenberg ETexts, which are plain text files. The core Read activity will eventually support this, so you can consider this activity to be a useful stopgap.
The interface to Read Etexts is very similar to the core Read activity, which should not be surprising as the toolbar code was adapted from Read's toolbar.
[Project Gutenberg] is a website where you can download thousands of public domain books for free. There are books for every interest: classics, history, childen's novels, science fiction, and much, much more.
Read ETexts can read books in plain text format or in Zip format. These are by far the most popular formats on the Gutenberg website. If you are downloading books using the Browse activity you should download one of the Zip file formats. This can be encoded as us-ascii text or as iso-8859-1; Read Etexts can handle either one. The iso-8859-1 encoding is used for books that need accent marks, etc. Save the Zip file to the Journal, change the Journal entry name to match the title of the book, and then resume it using the Read Etexts option on the Resume menu.
Source
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/readetexts
Executable .xo files
- ReadEtexts.xo v.1
Screenshots
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Development
Current Features
Currently Read Etexts can be used to read Gutenberg Etexts, either as text files or as zip files containing one text file. The toolbars include Activity, Read (skip to page), Edit (copy to clipboard, search for text) and View (zoom text bigger or smaller).
Sharing is not supported yet, and the power management code the core Read activity uses isn't in there yet.