Digitizing Millions of Books
According to Dick Eastman, “Five of the world’s largest libraries have joined Google to digitize millions of books and make every sentence searchable. “
Researchers, scholars, and the general public will be able to leverage these collections in ways that have been familiar to library users for centuries– unfettered searching through catalogs, reading and annotating the books, and sharing pieces with colleagues. The public domain or appropriately licensed books will be viewed on-screen, searched, and printed for free using PDF and DJVU. Leveraging the book catalogs of the individual libraries, RLG (The Research Libraries Group, Inc.) and other catalogs, these books will be available to traditional library users without much retraining.
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Trent Gilland January 9th
Hey Dylan, so when is this Google archive going to be up and running? And is it just going to be like the library where I can search for a book and just read it for free?
By the way, I included my e-mail address for you, Nathan sent me yours, but I didn’t know if you had mine or not. How are things going for you in WV? I’m back in Charlotte now, praying that I can find a job ASAP so I can move out of my folks’ house.
OH yeah, and how does our No Categories Forum work? Is it just a mesage board, or is it a live forum/chat?