My Rights. To Go.
Jamais Cascio, 9 Jun 04
It's a bit gimmicky, sure, but the idea of adding a copy of the US Constitution to your iPod holds a certain appeal. The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy is making the Constitution available as an iPod "Notes" file (which, sadly, doesn't work with the ancient first generation iPods -- sorry, early adopters, like me) for easy portability and quick reference. One wishes that certain members of the current administration had a deeper familiarity with the text; perhaps this will help.
Of course, you can turn any text file into an MP3, generated by high-quality text-to-speech, using TextAloud. And since the Constitution is a public domain doc available from Project Gutenberg or Bookshare.org, getting an ASCII copy should only take you a minute! You won't have any navigation capability within the MP3, unless you break the Constitution down into sections, but you can get it to your iPod in no time nonetheless.
Posted by: Jesse Fahnestock on 11 Jun 04
