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By David Rothman

image image E-reading software is currently the Rodney Dangerfield at OLPC—“don’t get no respect.” See my post earlier today.

But the people now developing the Sugar environment, spun off from the original project, hasten to point out the e-reading choices available as install-yourself Activities to augment Read, the featured e-reading app on the OLPC laptop.

And so for the benefit of XO-! owners, here’s information from Sean Daly: “…We are excited about the Read Etexts and Get Internet Archive Books Activities (both by James Simmons), the updated Read Activity, and the recently added Gcompris Activities.” I’ve added the links.

Sean suggests checking the sugar-devel list. “Note that you don’t need an XO laptop to test these Activities; Sugar on a Stick will boot just about any PC and many Macs.”

OK, gang, has anyone out there sampled the above e-reading Activities beyond Read, which I tried and hated in an earlier incarnation? And what are your impressions? Are any of these programs doing the ePub standard, on which major publishers have agreed? And what do you think of the usability of these Activities for nontechies?

Related: E-reading still neglected by the OLPC laptop folks? Yep—at least for now. But the future may be brighter.

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