You may have heard of Project Gutenberg and the World eBook Library. They're planning to have a World eBook Fair with free downloads of ebooks from July 4 to August 4.
"E-Book Giving Access to 300,000 Texts"
Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart:
"We want to give the most books to the most people.... It has been our goal since the dawn of the Internet to break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy."
I'm sure all the poor, ignorant and illiterate people who can't afford computers or Internet access will be lined up at the computer terminals at their local libraries, or perhaps at their neighborhood Internet cafes, during the month of the ebook fair, overjoyed at the prospect of reading classic literature on the computer or downloading ebooks in PDF files to -- oh, I dunno -- their PDAs ... until the next poor ignorant, illiterate person in line gets impatient and demands his or her time at the computer. Breaking down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy -- yes, indeed.
The random and not-so-random thoughts of a Korean-American, 30-something copy editor as she rambles and babbles through life, enforcing rules of punctuation, grammar and capitalization.
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