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The library is now Open - everywhere
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The Open Library concept is modeled after Wikipedia, a resource where users in any country can have access, are encouraged to curate the catalog, contribute to its content, and have free access to all its data. This library, once it is built, will be a very beautiful thing.
Open Library is partnering with the Internet Archive's book scanning project, so that you can read the full text of all the out-of-copyright books they've made available. It will link to places where each book could be bought, borrowed, or downloaded and provide reviews and references on the books themselves.
The library has accomplished a great deal in acquiring the Library of Congress' catalog, courting publishers to get more data, building a super capacity database to store the millions of entries and a new wiki.
For Open Library to get to the next level, it will need lots of volunteers to believe and build it up. The site is in demo now, but there's a guided tour which helps you visualize how it will all shake out.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
