TWIT 144, OpenLibrary and Little Brother

I was able to finish listening to TWIT 144 this morning before going to sleep and they were talking about OpenLibrary.org. Brewster Kahle, the guy who heads this project is also responsible for the Internet Archive project. He talked at length about how OpenLibrary.org was helping preserve old books for future generations. Their main efforts were in getting books scanned and translated into digital forms to preserve them electronically. It's a great effort and it should be supported. Too bad their funding from Microsoft stopped. They would now have to source their funds from the public. It's a worthy cause, you might want to consider donating to it.

On the topic of free books, they got to talking about Cory Doctorow's new book towards the end of the podcast. I didn't know he gave away free eBook copies of his work. I went to Craphound.com to get me an eReader copy of Little Brother. A for-pay copy is available in audio form, an excerpt of which they played after the credits on TWIT 144 (kinda like the way that extra scene was shown after credits in Ironman - hehehe). Anyway, if you would like to support the author and listen to the audiobook version, click on the graphic below: