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			[[Category:Activities\|Get Internet Archive Books]]</noinclude>

			[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4194 Activity Library download] \| [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/get-internet-archive-books Source] \|
	== Description & Goals==		== Description & Goals==

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	See [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa4eua_reading-with-the-sugar-desktop_tech Reading With The Sugar Desktop] at Daily Motion.		See [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa4eua_reading-with-the-sugar-desktop_tech Reading With The Sugar Desktop] at Daily Motion.

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Jdsimmons: /* Source */

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Source

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	http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/get-internet-archive-books		http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/get-internet-archive-books

			== The Movie! ==

			See [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa4eua_reading-with-the-sugar-desktop_tech Reading With The Sugar Desktop] at Daily Motion.

	[[Category:Activities]]		[[Category:Activities]]

Jdsimmons: /* Description & Goals */

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Description & Goals

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	The Internet Archive is a website containing around a million public domain ebooks created by scanning page images from books in various libraries. Because of this the ebooks have pages that look like the books they came from, including illustrations and other page decorations. It may be the best source of free books for younger readers, as well as for books in languages other than English.		The Internet Archive is a website containing around a million public domain ebooks created by scanning page images from books in various libraries. Because of this the ebooks have pages that look like the books they came from, including illustrations and other page decorations. It may be the best source of free books for younger readers, as well as for books in languages other than English.

	This Activity will use the [http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php Advanced Search] capabilities of the Internet Archive website to enable browsing the website's catalog, getting information on the books therein, and downloading these books to the Journal. Its user interface is similar to the offline catalog search of Read Etexts, but where that Activity is used for both getting books and reading them this one will concern itself only with getting the books, so they may be read with the Read Activity.		This Activity will use the [http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php Advanced Search] capabilities of the [http://www.archive.org/index.php Internet Archive website] to enable browsing the website's catalog, getting information on the books therein, and downloading these books to the Journal. Its user interface is similar to the offline catalog search of Read Etexts, but where that Activity is used for both getting books and reading them this one will concern itself only with getting the books, so they may be read with the Read Activity.

	== Current Features ==		== Current Features ==

Jdsimmons: /* Description & Goals */

2009-07-03T02:11:57Z

Description & Goals

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	The Internet Archive is a website containing around a million public domain ebooks created by scanning page images from books in various libraries. Because of this the ebooks have pages that look like the books they came from, including illustrations and other page decorations. It may be the best source of free books for younger readers, as well as for books in languages other than English.		The Internet Archive is a website containing around a million public domain ebooks created by scanning page images from books in various libraries. Because of this the ebooks have pages that look like the books they came from, including illustrations and other page decorations. It may be the best source of free books for younger readers, as well as for books in languages other than English.

	This Activity will use the Advanced Search capabilities of the Internet Archive website to enable browsing the website's catalog, getting information on the books therein, and downloading these books to the Journal. Its user interface is similar to the offline catalog search of Read Etexts, but where that Activity is used for both getting books and reading them this one will concern itself only with getting the books, so they may be read with the Read Activity.		This Activity will use the [http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php Advanced Search] capabilities of the Internet Archive website to enable browsing the website's catalog, getting information on the books therein, and downloading these books to the Journal. Its user interface is similar to the offline catalog search of Read Etexts, but where that Activity is used for both getting books and reading them this one will concern itself only with getting the books, so they may be read with the Read Activity.

	== Current Features ==		== Current Features ==

Jdsimmons: /* Bugs */

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Bugs

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	== Bugs ==		== Bugs ==

	~~# Currently the progress reporting of downloads works OK in my test environment but not when running on an XO.~~
	# I'd like the Activity to start up with the search field having the focus. I put in code that should do this but it isn't working.		# I'd like the Activity to start up with the search field having the focus. I put in code that should do this but it isn't working.
	~~# The results table displays nicely without horizontal scrolling in my test environment but needs horizontal scrolling on the XO.~~

	== Source ==		== Source ==

Jdsimmons: /* Planned Features */

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Planned Features

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	== Planned Features ==		== Planned Features ==

	I ~~plan~~ to ~~support other formats for downloading and will add new formats when it~~ is ~~possible~~ to ~~use these formats~~ in ~~Sugar Activities~~. ~~The most common formats are:~~		I consider this Activity to be feature complete. The only thing I might do is find some data to put in the Journal entry it creates for itself. At the moment that Journal entry is empty.

	* PDF
	* Black and White PDF
	* DJVU
	* Text

	~~Unlike Project Gutenberg texts, text files for~~ the ~~Internet Archive are created with OCR software with no attempt to format or proofread it, so I probably won't offer this one~~.

	== Bugs ==		== Bugs ==