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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."

2 of 106 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Nice try, but one hard-core fail by unmadindu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Both versions of the XO laptop (1.5 as well as 1) have dual mode screens (the backlight can be turned off to enable reflective mode).

  2. Re:You can contribute time to publish free e-books by eulernet · · Score: 4, Informative

    In fact, the proofread is done by the Distributed Proofreaders: http://www.pgdp.net/c/

    BTW, I'd like to know what is done from all the human OCR from the Recaptcha project: http://recaptcha.net/

    Any link to the digitized books ?