March 19, 2008
Nonprofit Book-Digitization Project Scans 1,000 Books a Day
The Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library, is scanning about 1,000 books a day that are out of copyright, according to an article today in Wired. The scanning takes place at the University of California’s Northern Regional Library Facility, where people sit in front of book-scanning machines and turn pages for hours on end. The archive contains about 350,000 titles.
Google, which is operating another book-digitization project, has refused to reveal how many books it has scanned. But librarians at the University of Michigan last month celebrated scanning their millionth book, an effort largely intended for the Google project. —Andrea L. Foster
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I wellcome this project, before that it very difficult to search our of print or rear book,pay lumsom amount. Now this is very sutable to get any book which you want.Internet really wonderful invention as printing press.
— Ramesh Raghuvanshi Mar 21, 01:39 AM #