E-Readers Bring The World's Library to Rural Africa

When I was volunteering in Ghana one of the things that struck me was the lack of access to quality books. The primary school in Sogakope had a library filled with Canadian legal text books and other extremely out of date books. It got me thinking about how people like Andrew Carnegie helped shape literacy & education in the U.S. by funding libraries. Worldreader.org is working to bring books to Africa through the use of eBook readers. With the costs of the devices coming down quickly, eBook readers are becoming a more economical option to printed books.

Check out this post from Read Write Web on World Reader's efforts in Ghana.