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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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