

BarksdaleĪs you'll see, the public domain availability of Project Gutenberg books and the grand tradition of British children's literature means that most of the selections are 19th-century books from the UK. The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book by Anonymous The Crooked Man and Other Rhymes by Anonymousĭame Wonder's Picture Alphabet by Anonymous The Royal Picture Alphabet by John Leighton Caldecott's First Collection of Pictures and Songs More Russian Picture Tales by Valery Carrick Miquette baptise sa poupée by Luis de Camões Little Bo-Peep by Leslie BrookeĪladdin or The Wonderful Lamp by Anonymous

More notes follow the links to the books. While you could copy files directly from the Journal's datastore using the Terminal, the random file names are nearly impossible to use to determine which file is your downloaded epub file.( More details on downloading.) Most importantly, FBReader is the only eBook reader that I know can run on the OLPC XO laptop.Ģ0 January Anne Gentle has kindly written up instructions on how to download these books to an XO and open them up: Use the XO's Browse activity to download the epub files, then use the Journal, an SD card or USB stick, and the Terminal to transfer the files from the Journal's datastore to the FBReader's default directory. Of all eBook formats, I chose the epub standard because it's open and well-documented, it makes good use of existing standards, and the FBReader eBook reader program can read epub files. These were created from the free books available as part of Project Gutenberg.
