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By Paul Biba

This is really wonderful news.  Brewster Kahle, director of the Archive, whose picture appears above, images-1announced this in Boston last week.  The entire collection of the Archive has been re-formatted to display on the OLPC in an effort that took over a year of work.  These books will be available to the 750,000 to 1 million people who now have OLPCs.  Evidently they originally looked at a PDF format for the books, but the file size was too large so they went with a format that was not identified in the article.  The books can be found in the “Reading Activity” portion of the laptop and this activity will also let the reader access books from other sources as well.

To avoid copyright problems the Archive has only digitized books that are in the public domain.  The full article from Xconomy Boston is available here.

 
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