Reading

300 000 free ebooks

Between July 4th-August 4, 2006 the World eBook Fair makes it possible to download 1/3 million free eBooks.

July 4th to August 4, 2006 marks a month long celebration of the 35th anniversary of the first step taken towards today’s eBooks, when the United States Declaration of Independence was the first file placed online for downloading in what was destined to be an electronic library of the Internet. Today’s eBook library has a total of over 100 languages represented.

This event is brought to you by the oldest and largest free eBook source on the Internet, Project Gutenberg, with the assistance of the World eBook Library, the providers of the largest collection, and a number of other eBook efforts around the world. The World eBook Library normally charges $8.95 per year for online access, and allows unlimited personal downloading. During The World eBook Fair all these books are available free of charge through a gateway at http://www.gutenberg.org and http://WorldeBookFair.com.

(via bibl.se)

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Fun with google & googleheads

Philipp Lenssen has written the book â??55 Ways to Have Fun With Googleâ??. My first thought was that this must be a small broschure â?? but I was wrong. The book is 228 pages long. Best of all is that its available for download here. The book is licensed under a Creative Commons license (by-nc-sa).

Naturally, as one would expect, the book includes an inspirational quote from the song â??The Googleheadsâ?? see the weird song and video here (oh, and apparently you can buy the song on itunes!). Here is the googlehead quote:

On a spring day you can find your way
to a little flower garden where the Googleheads play
You know theyâ??re there by the clothes they wear
And their Googlehead faces and their Googlehead hair.

â??Cause theyâ??re the Googleheads
They shake their doodleheads
Theyâ??re the goo-ga-goo-ga-goo-gah Googleheads.
â?? Laurie Berkner

Check out Lenssenâ??s google website.

(via Lessig Blog)

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Summer sale?

This arrived in my mailbox and thought it might be of interest. SAGE Publications are offering free online full text access to the current and back issues of selected cultural studies journals (see list below) until August 31st 2006.

To access the journals, register at: https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FT6122

The journals include:

Body & Society
Crime, Media, Culture
Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies
European Journal of Cultural Studies
French Cultural Studies
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Journal of Consumer Culture
Journal of Visual Culture
Media, Culture & Society
Space and Culture
Theory, Culture & Society

Is this limited open access a strange form of the summer sale or are SAGE simply trying to ensure that people have something good to read during their summer holidays?

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What are you reading this summer?

Summer is the time of relaxing but its also a time of stress – its the time when all those things that you have put of until summer must be fulfilled. One of these todo lists is the summer reading list. Here is what the summer has carried with it in terms of interesting literature:

Dave Taylor’s “Learning Unix” – yupp, as I have already written…it’s time to learn unix. I have been meaning to read Hannah Arendt so now her books “Totalitarianism” and “On Revolution” are part of the holiday. The technology section includes Adam Greenfield’s new book “Everyware“, Lasica’s “Darknet“, Langdon Winner’s “The Whale and the Reactor” (which I have meaning to reread) and Joseph Gies “Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel“. In addition to this I have a copy of the PhD dissertation “Being-with Information Technology” by Anna Croon Fors.

So what is everyone else reading?

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