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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."

3 of 113 comments (clear)

  1. Why not join the Gutenberg Project by autOmato · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Since they are nonprofit, why don't they join forces with a quite similar project: Project Gutenberg

  2. Hmm... by ToasterofDOOM · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... hey guys, I think I heard that some people were doing this already. Maybe even another group too. I think I heard it on slashdot.

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  3. "some more than a century old..." by whitroth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I do hope they're not duplicating efforts... and whether they even know about Project Gutenberg. http://www.promo.net/pg/>

              mark