October 20, 2002
satellite internet access and a printer... it's good humor for books

Brewster Kahle, director of the Internet Archive, is taking his show on the road. The Bookmobile is his mad creation, thinking it up about a month before the Eldred case went before the Supreme Court. Their motto: "Universal access to human knowledge." (~borrowed from Raj Reddy at CMU).

Brewster and his son, Caslon are driving from Palo Alto to Washington DC, via Berkeley and even Columbus Ohio (for a bookmobile convention!) to print out books (there are 6000 titles) in the public domain. They download from the internet via satellite, on the spot, publishing one at a time, books like a cir. 1900 copy of the Wizard of Oz (be patient, it's a big photo -- but that down-home populist toothy grin is so cute!), Huck Finn and Alice in Wonderland. As the stone out front at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh says: "Free to the People".

Archive.org has also been looking into making a moving images archive available for public use, too.

Posted by Mary Hodder at October 20, 2002 04:29 PM
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