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"It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and
create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what
Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious
book-digitizing project in 2002. It got part of the way there,
digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries."
Much still remains to be done.
Via Lauren Weinstein, who added:
"Back when I was at UCLA and had some spare time, I used to wander the
stacks of the various many libraries there, and pull books at random to
quickly scan (that's human scanning, not digital scanning) or to read in
detail. I do that now with Google Books. In a million lifetimes, I
couldn't even begin to scratch the surface of what's interesting and
fascinating in the available Google Books full text corpus."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
