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This is the headquarters of the Internet Archive in San Francisco, the Tech Laureate a couple

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of years ago.

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Here is the One Laptop per Child with a little wireless widget, but if you bring up a book,

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put the little ears away, turn it, and then you have an electronic book that is 200 dots

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per inch, so it does scan books beautifully.

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So unlike some of the other e-book displays where you have to go and re-author your book

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to make it an e-book, we can turn any book into an e-book for about $10 or $20.

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So there is basically no re-authoring or having to hand-key books or get all of the words

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right so that you can go and cut and paste it.

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It is basically an image of the book and one of the advantages of that is you get the actual

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design of the book, of how it looked.

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It is just a simple interface towards flipping pages, but any book can be made into an electronic

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book very easily and distributed anywhere in the world using this very convenient, mass-produced,

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inexpensive, open platform.

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That could be the way your library really gets publicized.

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It could be.

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If indeed they can really move millions of them.

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This may be, yes, the best opportunity to get a digital library to the world might be

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through these as opposed to people getting it on their existing laptops or on print-on-demand

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machines such as the Expresso Book Machine.