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Human-Powered Internet Archive Book Project

Posted by Zonk on from the hope-she-likes-the-way-books-smell dept.

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "A group led by the Internet Archive is planning a massive, ambitious effort to scan millions of old books and make them available for Web searching early next year. Behind that effort are about a dozen scanners, employees making about $10 an hour to manually scan volumes -- some more than a century old -- one page at a time, on special contraptions. The Wall Street Journal Online visits a University of Toronto library to watch one of the scanners in action: 25-year-old Liz Ridolfo."

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  1. Hey there... by stev3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why hello, Ms. Liz Ridolfo. I'm happy to see you are into computers (at least I'll tell myself that) and you like to put your pictures online.

    Please email me at superdesperateteengeek@needtogetlaid.net

  2. best commet ever! by CannibalSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    > bullshit

    I too want to be modded Insightful!

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  3. Over a century old... by Cow+Jones · · Score: 3, Funny

    employees making about $10 an hour to manually scan volumes -- some more than a century old

    I think that if they hired younger people to scan the books, it might go a little faster.
    Imagine a 100 year old at this job...

    "...(mumble mumble) in my day we used priests to copy books (mumble mumble) oh dear, I tore another page, darn Parkinson (mumble mumble)"

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