Libravox and the Gutenburg project are huge in their scope of trying to give voice to all books that are in the public domain. At first I was concerned about the copyright issues but upon further study found that they are abiding by US law because they are based in the US and only using books pre-1923. International law however defines public domain differently all over the world. It makes me wonder what will happen to copyright laws and the interenet continues to take over communication. Because April is poetry month, I added a poetry RSS feed from Libravox. We added non-fiction ebooks to the Hulstrom Library this year and I can see application for them but still am totally against ebook fiction and get rid of print as is part of the mission of the Gutenburg Project.
I have really enjoyed learning more about Library 2.0 and some items that were totally new to me. I will be able to recommend these things to teachers as I collaborate with them.
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