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| * [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Book_reader Library /Book Reader]. Thousands of books stored on the XS which children are able to pull over the network either as whole book or bit by bit as they read them on their XO's. | | * [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Book_reader Library /Book Reader]. Thousands of books stored on the XS which children are able to pull over the network either as whole book or bit by bit as they read them on their XO's. |
| **an ebook reader server/client system | | **an ebook reader server/client system |
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| **Additionally, they can "check out" books and bring them home on their laptops to read at home, or while not connected to the XS. | | **Additionally, they can "check out" books and bring them home on their laptops to read at home, or while not connected to the XS. |
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| **This may prove to be more economical than the proposal of distributing text via SDcards as it would allow for a wider range of content per available Gigabyte. One 40 gig hard disk library would hold 10 times as much content as ten, 4-GB SDcards replicated with identical content. | | **This may prove to be more economical than the proposal of distributing text via SDcards as it would allow for a wider range of content per available Gigabyte. One 40 gig hard disk library would hold 10 times as much content as ten, 4-GB SDcards replicated with identical content. |
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| ** Run said books through Pootle, so children have access to books not in their native tongue. | | ** Run said books through Pootle, so children have access to books not in their native tongue. |
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| ** Essentially, a backend to the read activity. | | ** Essentially, a backend to the read activity. |
| *** <font color="red">Status:</font> currently under development | | *** <font color="red">Status:</font> currently under development |