What's Little Brother about?Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.
But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.
When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.
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The explanation:
I wanted a copy of
Little Brother formatted for my Sony Reader, with indented paragraphs instead of line breaks. All the versions at Doctorow's free download site use line breaks. Also, I wanted font changes between the main body text and the texting/code text.
This is formatted for a 6" e-ink screen, but will probably look okay on 5" readers as well. 10pt font, which may be a bit small for some people, but it's tagged so should reflow fairly well. It has bookmarks, which will show up as a TOC in the Sony; I could add actual TOC pages if someone wanted them.
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