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Public-Domain Bookmobile Hits the Road

Posted by jamie on from the draft-behind-it-for-extra-bandwidth dept.

At Belle Haven Elementary School in Palo Alto, right about... *now*, the Internet Archive Bookmobile is starting its ten-day, cross-country trip to the Supreme Court. They're putting the hammer down (itinerary) (blog) to make it to Ohio for the Bookmobile Conference. Then they'll drive into Washington, D.C. on Oct. 8, the day before the nine Justices hear the copyright-extension case Eldred v. Ashcroft. The contraption is a Ford Aerostar with decals, satellite dish, wireless LAN, laptops... and a printer and binder to do on-demand printing of any of the thousands of public domain books on the internet. (The webpage says 20,000 but the decals claim 1,000,000... maybe they have 50 fonts :) Update: 10/01 01:33 GMT by T : Nick Arnett writes "The piece about Belle Haven School's bookmobile put the school in Palo Alto. It's not; it's across the freeway, in a far less wealthy and privileged neighborhood, where access to technology is much less common than in Palo Alto. (I'm on the board of Plugged In, a community technology center in the same area as Belle Haven.)"

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  2. Re:excellent by brunes69 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I am waiting for a public domain B-52 myself.

  3. This bookmobile seems to have more user space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's funny how the poster forgot to mention this one.

  4. Re:Moderation Totals: Offtopic=1, Troll=1, Insight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The trolls are the only insightful ones around here.

  5. But what about the environment? by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: -1, Troll

    Though I support their cause, I am a staunch environmentalist, and I'm outraged that they choose to promote it in such an environmentally-unfriendly way.

    Driving over 4000 miles puts tons of poisonous carbon monoxide into the already choking air, and mass-printing out books only encourages logging companies to saw down ancient forests en-masse -- not to mention the massive amounts of other pollution, such as littering, that this project will bring.

  6. So, uh.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are they sucking dick for coke?

    I'm just asking, if that's ok with you.