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Internet Archive Puts 1.6M E-Books On OLPC Laptops

Posted by timothy on from the and-not-just-one-to-a-customer dept.

waderoush writes "Brewster Kahle of the San Francisco-based Internet Archive announced today that all 1.6 million books scanned and digitized by the Archive will be available for reading on XO laptops built by the Cambridge, MA-based One Laptop Per Child Foundation. The announcement came during a session on electronic books and electronic publishing at the Boston Book Festival. Kahle said the Archive has been collaborating with OLPC for a year to format the e-books for display on the XO laptops, some 750,000 of which are in use by children in developing countries."

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  1. This is great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I really feel if the third worlds would use these to learn more about agriculture and even different philosophies they stand a chance at becoming civilized. I might be overly optimistic, but I feel this is a good start.

  2. Re:Er... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    the only problem i see here is you being a fucking retard. these people will adopt like all other people can.

  3. What the hell are XO laptops? by Snaller · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And why should we care?

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    If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating