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The Internet Archive launches Open Library
The Open Library aims to reproduce the experience of reading a book online. Right now there are only a handful of public domain titles available, with many more coming in the next few months. The website is currently in demo mode, with an official launch date in October.
Flipping through the scanned book images is about as close an experience as you're likely to get to reading a dusty old novel without that musty book smell. You can even see library notations and used book prices penciled into the images. It takes a moment for some of the pages to load, and it's arguable whether it's more efficient to read these books in image or text form.
Each book is searchable. Since the books are in the public domain, you can also download each title as a PDF file, or send it to Lulu to order your own personal bound and printed edition. There's also a listen link next to each book. Click it for an audiobook version when available.
[via Future of the Book]
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, ...
