Speeches, interviews and correspondence for free as an e-book

“Make Something Wonderful” is the name of the book that will be published next week as part of the digital Steve Jobs Archive. The archive was launched last September by Jobs’ wife Laurene Powell Jobs in collaboration with friends and associates of the Apple founder.

The e-book will be published on the Apple Books website and the Steve Jobs Archive website.

During his lifetime, Jobs was covered in the media like few other people. He was on the cover of Time magazine for the first time before he was 27 years old, and there are more than 162,000 videos of his speeches alone on YouTube. Written by Walter Isaacson, his biography is more than 600 pages long.

But his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, wanted people to be able to experience her husband more personally, without what she calls “intermediaries.” “A lot has been written about him, but these are actually his writings,” she told the Washington Postwho has already seen the e-book. The renowned US daily newspaper judges that the book provides an “intimate look” at the Apple co-founder, who died of cancer in 2011.

according to the Editors In the book, Jobs tells of his childhood, the founding and ejection of Apple, his time at Pixar and Next and finally his return to the company that started it all. Insights into the different stages of Jobs’ life are conveyed through notes and drafts that Jobs emailed to himself, excerpts from letters and speeches, oral narration and interviews, as well as photos and memorabilia.

According to the Washington Post, the e-book focuses more on Jobs’ thoughts and philosophical approaches than his business decisions or how he became one of the pre-eminent corporate leaders of his time.

“We don’t need a book to tell us what he did because we have examples of it every day in our lives,” Disney CEO Bob Iger, who was a friend of Jobs, is quoted as saying. “But a book that really takes us inside him and tells us who he was.” For Iger, too, the result has become “very intimate”.

One of the speeches featured in the book was given by Jobs in 1996 to the senior class at Palo Alto High School, which also included his eldest child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.

Jobs said there: “Imagine your life as a rainbow stretching across the horizon of this world. You appear, you have the chance to shine in the sky, and then you disappear.” He himself took advantage of this opportunity.