Comments on: REMIX now ccFree

By: Eunah Choi

Eunah Choi — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:24:29 +0000

Thank you for all the people who made a plain text version of Remix available. I am enjoying Professor Lessig's book greatly. I/ve read half of the book. I will post more comments about the book when I finish reading it.
Thank you.

By: John Hilton III

John Hilton III — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:04:41 +0000

@Pablo Rodríguez: I have some questions that I would like to ask you that might be better to discuss outside this blog. I tried to contact you via your website, but could not reach you. this involves researching what motivates people to make derivatives. If you would be interested in participating, could you please contact me? (should be able to link to my website via my name)...thanks...

By: Pablo Rodríguez

Pablo Rodríguez — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:55:48 +0000

Bloomsbury Academic seems to have released a new smaller PDF (2.1MB), generated using the MacOSX built-in PDF tool. The new PDF document doesn't have weird issues with the copyright license (page 6).

Again, I'm afraid that I get more efficiently compressed output using Multivalent Compress:

java -classpath Multivalent20060102.jar tool.pdf.Compress -compat Remix.pdf

It is only 1.4MB and it has been uploaded to the Internet Archive.

Just in case it helps.

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:55:24 +0000

From Facebook:

'To Celebrate the Creative Commons launch of Lawrence Lessig's new book, "Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy", Bloomsbury Academic are hosting a contest and asking you to remix any of Professor Lessig's work!'

For details see this page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=71191382717&ref=mf

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:46:23 +0000

@Pablo: I did not read comments yesterday and today, and thus did not know you had created a text file for Eunah. But during this time I also created a text file. It's available at:

http://www.box.net/shared/ykpaf7u9b0

The significant difference is that, in this version, lines of text are not limited to 65 characters. In other words, paragraphs widen and narrow as you change the size of the window. The advantage is that this file might appear better on smart phones or ebook readers such as the Kindle. A disadvantage is that quotes and headings are harder to identify.

Anyway, thanks for doing this and for listing the tools you used. I used the "save as text" facility in Acrobat Reader and then search and replacing.

By: Pablo Rodríguez

Pablo Rodríguez — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:57:14 +0000

@Eunah Choi: you're right. I'm afraid that the Internet Archive is problematic with pure text files. This link should work: http://www.archive.org/download/LawrenceLessigRemix/remix.zip. Remember that the file is not encoded in US-ASCII, but in UTF8. Don't hesitate to comment again, if your Braille device doesn't work with that.

By: Noel Cody

Noel Cody — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:46:09 +0000

@Eunah Choi Try clicking "full text" on the lefthand side, then copy/pasting that into a text editing program on your computer – does that work?

By: A.J.

A.J. — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:42:37 +0000

Prof. Lessig, I'm enjoying your book so far. But I've got one thing to gripe about.
You use the adjective "insanely" a lot. The kid is "insanely cute," Ben's reading "insanely careful," reading comments "insanely difficult," etc. You should cut the word. It's overly hyperbolic and actually detracts from the effectiveness of your sentences. Cutting out intensifiers when you write usually makes your thoughts and ideas clearer and stronger than they would be with the intensifier in (which is counter-intuitive, but still.) I feel as though your editor should have caught this. Just something that caught my eye while reading.
Thanks to Rodriguez for the text file!

By: Eunah Choi

Eunah Choi — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:32:12 +0000

Thank you for the link, but I cannot download the txt file. When I click the popup key and choose the option "save target as...", all I can get is a nasty html file. Could you please provide a link that I can directly download the txt file? You can also compress the file in a zip format; it will make my download easier.
Thank you in advance.

By: Pablo Rodríguez

Pablo Rodríguez — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:12:45 +0000

@Eunah Choi: full text is available at the Internet Archive. It is a pure text file, but not encoded in US-ASCII, but in Unicode (actually utf8). If your device only works with US-ASCII, let me know and I'll try to recode the text file.