As many books as your CD can hold, 609 books, to be exact, are available for downloading and burning onto CD through Project Gutenberg's "Best Of CD" project. And if you have a DVD burner, the numbers are even more amazing. Today, at the Berkeley Public Library, they were giving away DVD's with the text of thousands of books on them.
While I can't imagine reading the books in this form, it is easy to create readable books from the files, and it is certainly easy to search the files for quotes or information. What wealth we have at our fingertips! Of course, as is so often the case, it is easiest for those who are least in need of these resources to access them. As a friend of mine says, "to those who have, much is given."
However, it's a great start, and efforts like Brewster Kahle's Internet Bookmobile are working to bring its benefits to the non-computer DVD enabled.
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