Carnegie Mellon's Digital Library Exceeds 1.5 Million Books

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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Re:Yay!

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Traditional libraries are long dead in a pretty significant percentage of the US.

I was joking, geez. I love how people like you jump on any opportunity they can to say something actually insightful just for the sake of being insightful even tho their comment is hardly related to the comment they're replying to. And I'm the one troll..