[sugar] Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

[Yamandu Ploskonka]

I do use my XO/Sugar for eBook reading also. 

Again, it definitely has issues.  I am learning the non-intuitive at 
first "go back to spot" of opening through Journal.  I survive sort of 
OK when the cursor does weird things because I pressed the mouse button 
when in ebook screen display .  I dislike having maybe 5% of the line 
ride out off the right margin too often.  I wish I could figure out how 
to change the size of the text.  PDF is slow, I agree, and someone is 
proposing a flip-the-page look, I wonder what memory/processor footprint 
that would take

I have not yet been able to run yet the Python book in the OLPC wiki.

My line is getting old, yes, it would help if activities, software and 
hardware were perfect.  That would help us, say, 50%, to rise from 8% 
use to 12% use.
Getting the teachers to _use_ our stuff might get us to an order of 
magnitude.

Of course I can say whatever, since we have no quantitative baseline... :-)

Sugar as eBook can have MANY formats, it is not broken beyond salvage.  
Html, pdf, even plain text in the Write format.

Now, if we could get to a point that it connects somehow to schoolwork...

Say, something that would have a page of text, maybe a picture, and a 
text input window, so the kid reads the page and does whatever the 
teacher assigns him to do.
If it pulled metadata and sent itself to the teacher, who then received 
the homework paunlessly

I will make a mockup and see what y'all can do to make it happen if you 
think it makes sense.

Yama





Niños del Uruguay demuestran su trabajo con Etoys "en esa instancia se 
dio la paradoja de ver a los niños enseñando a los adultos, que había 
participado de un taller de Etoys ese mismo día" cortesía de Fernando da 
Rosa.  Children of Uruguay demonstrate Etoys.
http://www.fedaro.info/materiales/saltoEtoys.ogg en formato para XO


Luke Faraone wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 18:24, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Any opinions? Is it fatally broken or does it just needs some tweaking
>     to make it more usable?
>
>
> I use my XO to read books all the time, I just don't use sugar...
>
> In my experience, the best "format" to use is plain old UTF-8 text and 
> vim.
>
> The current major blockers for me with using... say... Browse as a 
> HTML-ebook-reader is the ease of access to the "end" button when in 
> book mode; one false press and you've skipped to the end of a 
> document, not to mention the fact that you cannot save your place. 
> Other than that, it works well for simple (non-AJAXY) books.
>
> And PDF rendering, on 8.2.0 at least, is too slow in my opinion for 
> book-reading.
>
> -lf 
>
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