I don't really know much about eBooks, and Amazon's Kindle and other things seemed ridiculously specific to me. But this post on the Institute for the Future of the Book's blog, is as mindblowing as the poster says.
"* He then choreographed a series of demonstrations. Raj Kumar from Internet Archive demonstrated how the BookServer technology can deliver books to the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) XO laptop, wirelessly. There are 1 million of these machines in the hands of underprivileged children around the world, and today they just got access to 1.6 million new books."
And as a commenter posts:
"Bookserver is definitely NOT limited to public domain books — the intent is to make it possible for anyone to download ANY book (PD, out-of-print, in-print) to ANY device."
That's pretty wow!
Me
- Mark
- I am writing a PhD at the University of Glasgow entitled "The Poetics of Time in Contemporary Literature". My writing has been published in Type Review, Dancehall, Puffin Review and TheState. I review books for Gutter and The List. I am also an editor and reviewer at the Glasgow Review of Books.
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