Tag: books
Book publishers sue Internet Archive for allegedly enabling piracy
When libraries around the US began closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Internet Archive (IA) responded by creating a “National Emergency Library,” a collection of 1.4 million books from its free e-book repository Open Library. Pu… Source
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Sonos can now stream free audiobooks from your local library
Even if social distancing has helped you to achieve the nigh impossible task of watching your entire Netflix queue, there’s still a trove of media to consume. Sonos has teamed up with OverDrive — makers of the audiobook lending app Libby — to let c… Source
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Why you can’t overlook the small details in the pursuit of innovation
The informal TechCrunch book club reads Ted Chiang’s The Great Silence Danny Crichton 8 hours This week, we read a very short story, The Great Silence, as we start to head toward the end of Ted Chiang’s Exhalation collection. This story asks questions about how we connect with nature, and…
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