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===Activities: E-Book Accessibility & Viewing===

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*~~Could~~ possibly use RIT student [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Jlew Justin Lewis]' [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/FileShare File Share Activity]?

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*Several existing document reader Activities contain various combinations of the desired features outlined above:

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**The default [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read Read] Activity, developed by [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ Sayamindu Dasgupta], is compatible with most e-book file formats, has support for Tablet Mode. What it lacks is a user interface which allows younger users to easily browse through their collection of e-books on their XO. It also lacks a book retrieval mechanism; its sole purpose is the viewing of documents.

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**[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Get_Internet_Archive_Books Get Internet Archive Books]

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**[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Read_Etexts Read Etexts] is an Activity which started as a generic text file reader for Project Guttenberg files and has grown to include a built-in catalog of tens of thousands of Project Guttenberg's books.

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*On the book retrieval side, could also possibly use RIT student [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Jlew Justin Lewis]' [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/FileShare File Share Activity]?

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===Software: File Hosting & Distribution===

*Could possibly use Justin Lewis' [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/FileShare/Server File Share Server]?

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