Dearest LibriVox listeners, volunteers, & supporters: For four-and-a-half years, LibriVox volunteers have been making audiobooks for the world to enjoy, and giving them away for free. We’ve made thousands of free audiobooks that have been downloaded by millions of people; our site gets 400,000 visitors every month. To date, all our costs have been borne [...]
A recent study done by Roger Bohn of UC San Diego, estimates that the average American consumes about 36,000 words of text per day, during leisure hours. That number includes print, email, the web, and text messaging. That’s a lot of text. At that rate the average American could read Moby Dick every week. The [...]
If you are worried about privacy and Google Buzz (you should be), here’s how you can turn it off. 1. Log into Gmail 2. Scroll down to bottom of the page 3. Click: “Turn off Buzz” UPDATE: See here (Thanks Karl!): http://www.scotxblog.com/legal-tech/lawyer-privacy-on-google-buzz/ You can follow the Google Blog for more information.