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The Open Library
by Brewster Kahle (b. 1960).
Text of the speech given by Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, at the launch of the Open Library in October 2005. LibriVox was invited to the launch, and produced audio recordings for “An International Episode,” and “Old Christmas,” two of the first books scanned into the Open Library collection. (Summary by Hugh)
- Text: Open Library
- Wikipedia - Brewster Kahle
- LibriVox’s Open Library Internet Archive page
- Zip file of the entire book (8.4 MB)
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Read by: Kristen, Kara, Brad, Gord, Sureka, Eddie, Alex, Hugh, Chris, and Sally
mp3 and ogg files
- The Open Library Vision - 00:17:27
[mp3@64kbps - 8.4MB]
[mp3@128kbps - 16.8MB]
[ogg vorbis - 14.2MB]










