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Open Library Project Takes Flight

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the alexandria-green-with-envy dept.

Aaron Swartz today announced the launch of the new Open Library project. The goal of the project is to produce the world's greatest library on the Internet free for anyone to use. Starting with the Internet Archive's book scanning project and organizing the insertion of new content via a wiki-type model the project seems to be off to a great start. The demo, source code, and mailing lists were all opened up today in hopes of drawing interest from the public at large.

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  1. These aren't the right people... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    People who understand both literature and libraries should be behind this project--not ego-geeks.

  2. What good will it be? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    First off, any material that this gets will all be public domain, virtual rubbish that no one reads or enjoys. Second, no one will get stuff from it, so there is no point.
    It is a waste of time! Fuck it! Fuck it! Fuck it!