Kytabu App designed to make textbooks affordable on XO and other devices

This digital textbook app, which works with textsooks needed in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, provides access to a library of digital versions of required texts, allowing the buying of books or chapters of books on a tablet through mobile money transactions.

While this isn’t our vision for how textbooks or class learning should be done a few years from now, it is a nice innovation for the present, in schools where digital readers are available and textbooks are expensive or hard to get at all.

1 thought on “Kytabu App designed to make textbooks affordable on XO and other devices

  1. SJ, are you sure that Kytabu is really also available for XOs? The article you link to only mentions an “OLPC tablet” and a quick search on Google doesn’t turn up anything indicating that there’s a Kytabu Sugar Activity…

    I will doublecheck; that’s how I heard about this originally.

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