Human-Powered Internet Archive Book Project

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 11, 2005 @06:39PM 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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http://www.digg.com by master_meio · 2005-11-11 18:44 · Score: -1, Troll

Digg speaks, slashdot listens. It's like a crystal ball, showing you what slashdot's front page will like like in 45 minutes.
R.I.P. Slashdot.org
1. Re:http://www.digg.com by Anonymous Coward · 2005-11-12 01:26 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  It should be slashdot.com, the hypocrites.
2. Re:http://www.digg.com by heinousjay · 2005-11-12 02:33 · Score: 1, Troll
  
  Yep.
  
  Too bad the comments on Digg make this place look like a scholar's retreat.
  
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