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Carnegie Mellon's Digital Library Exceeds 1.5 Million Books

Posted by Zonk on from the might-just-be-enough-to-read dept.

cashman73 writes "Most Slashdot readers are probably familiar with Google's book scanning project, a collaboration with several major universities to digitize works of literature, art, and science. But Google may have been beat to the punch this time -- about a decade ago, Carnegie Mellon University embarked on a project to scan books into digital format, to be made available online. Today, according to new reports, they now have a collection of 1.5 million books, the equivalent of a typical university library, available online."

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  1. search engine by HemmingSay · · Score: 5, Funny

    i really like the idea of online libraries, but i had to laugh when i got the following result for the first book that came to mind: "Please provide a valid query (Word greater than length 3)" the book was "the old man and the sea".

  2. need a visualisation by ross.w · · Score: 3, Funny

    So how many Libraries of Cogress is that?

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