[OLPC library] [Testing] gnubook testing

[Samuel Klein]

Rebecca, thanks for the update.  That is indeed a great place to
recommend books for scanning.  I wonder if the BPL would be interested
in an on-location set of XOs to display the s-o-d results.

--SJ

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud
<webchick at invisible.net> wrote:
> Excellent, SJ!
>
> Someone directed me to the International Children's Digital Library (
> http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ ) as a possible source for content. I
> haven't contacted them yet - but will.
>
> Also, I am working with Open Library on a partnership project with BPL
> (Boston Public Library) known as Scan-On-Demand:
>
> http://openlibrary.org/bpl
>
> There are some children's books - unfortunately, they aren't categorized by
> subject (yet) - fortunately, I am redesigning that page :-) - I am building
> a similar collection of the "best of" books from what we have scanned - I
> will send the Library-OLPC list anything I find -
>
> In the meantime, feel free to queue up any books you find interesting for
> scanning!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rebecca Malamud
>
>
>
>
> At 3:34 AM -0500 1/15/09, Samuel Klein wrote:
>>
>> A quick update about the gnubook ajax bookreader : I'm talking to the
>> developer, Raj Kumar about how to improve the experience on the XO.
>>
>> you can test out the latest reader here:
>>  http://openlibrary.org/olpc/bookreader
>>  http://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/tree/master
>>
>> and file feature requests and bugs here:
>>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnubook
>>
>> Please recommend specific books from the Internet Archive you'd like
>> to see tested on  the demo site; particularly from the children's
>> library collection and this set, many of which Rebecca has tracked
>> down:
>>  http://openlibrary.org/details/rightreadingforc00welsrich/leaf33
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> SJ
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