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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. It's lighter! by HolyCrapSCOsux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Last time I moved, It took many VERY HEAVY boxes to Move all my books. Maybe I'll scan them all..

    All though anything useful has to be illegal... :(

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  2. Re:RTFA? by commbat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd RTFA if the black text didn't overlap a black image. IE-only web designers should be shot.

    This is when the 'remove this object' firefox extension comes in handy. Just remove the image and the text is readable. 'Undo last remove' to get the image back.

    I don't think you should have been modded down.

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