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Why create an Activity that does the same thing as View Slides but with fewer features?  The answer is simple: Read SD Comics does not read image archives in the Journal.  Instead, the comic files are kept on an SD card or other external storage, and the Journal only stores a link to the comic file plus metadata like the page you left off on, title, description, etc.

Why create an Activity that does the same thing as View Slides but with fewer features?  The answer is simple: Read SD Comics does not read image archives in the Journal.  Instead, the comic files are kept on an SD card or other external storage, and the Journal only stores a link to the comic file plus metadata like the page you left off on, title, description, etc.

If you own an XO laptop you should be able to see the advantage of this approach.

If you own an XO laptop you should be able to see the advantage of this approach.  Every XO laptop has a place to insert an SD card.  The slot is designed to make the card difficult to remove.  If you have a cheap SD card you can add up to 8 gigabytes of storage to your XO.

 

Unfortunately, the SD card isn't good for much because Sugar works with the Journal and the Journal is on internal storage only.  Since internal storage has to hold the operating system, etc. you have only about 500 megabytes to hold your stuff.  Since a long comic book can easily be over 60 megabytes you just can't store much of a collection in the Journal.  You can, however, store lots of them on an SD card.

The interface to Read SD Comics is similar to the core Read activity, which should not be surprising as the toolbar code was adapted from Read's toolbar. You can use the up and down arrows or the game controller to move from page to page.

The interface to Read SD Comics is similar to the core Read activity, which should not be surprising as the toolbar code was adapted from Read's toolbar. You can use the up and down arrows or the game controller to move from page to page.

=== Slide Collections on the Internet ===

== Slide Collections on the Internet ==

Some books at Project Gutenberg are already in a suitable format.  Try downloading this file from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21078 Project Gutenberg].  Look for the file format "Raw page images".

Some books at Project Gutenberg are already in a suitable format.  Try downloading this file from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21078 Project Gutenberg].  Look for the file format "Raw page images".