no software is
necessary. For "image" files, the reformatting software is
called Mot@Mot - Word@Word in French - and could be used with
any other device. This software received much attention from
the French National Library (BnF: Bibliotheque nationale de
France) for a potential use in Gallica, its digital library of
90,000 books, especially for old books (published before 1812)
and illustrated manuscripts.

Since its inception, the @folio project has received a warm
welcome during guest presentations in various book fairs and
symposiums in France and Europe, and a warm welcome from the
French-speaking media - press, radio, television and internet.
An international patent was filed in April 2001. The French
startup iCodex was created in July 2002 to promote, develop and
market @folio. A few years later, there is still a warm
welcome, but yet no funding. In August 2007, the @folio team
began seeking funding worldwide. Pierre's passion for a cheap
and beautiful reading device intended for everybody - and not
just the few - has no boundaries, except some financial ones.

2008: "A COMMON INFORMATION SPACE IN WHICH WE COMMUNICATE"

= [Overview]

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web in 1989-90, wrote in May
1998: "The dream behind the web is of a common information
space in which we communicate by sharing information. Its
universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can
point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft
or highly polished. There was a second part of the dream, too,
dependent on the web being so generally used that it became a
realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the
ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that
once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then
use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we are
doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work
together" (excerpt from: "The World Wide Web: A Very Short
Personal History", available on the W3C website). Twenty years
after the invention of the web, and ten years after the writing
of this text, Tim Berners-Lee's dream and "second part of the
dream" have begun to become reality with many participative
projects across borders and languages.

= From etexts to ebooks

Michael Hart founded Project Gutenberg in 1971. He wrote in
1998: "We consider etext to be a new medium, with no real
relationship to paper, other than presenting the sam