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All 1.6 million Internet Archive books to be available on the OLPC

This is really wonderful news. Brewster Kahle, director of the Archive, whose picture appears above, announced this in Boston last week. Full Article at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

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  1. We’ve been working for the last year, since Nicholas invited us, to show that we can do this ... We took all of the one million, six hundred thousand books and reformatted them to work with the OLPC laptop.
    – Brewster Kahle SOURCE: Xconomy 1 month ago
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