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Friday, May 21, 2004

It takes a library of millions

Byron Spice, CMU's 'Million Books' on the Web project makes slow, steady progress, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 21, 2004. Spice reports on Carnegie Mellon University's project (in conjunction with the Internet Archive and others) to digitize one million books by 2007. To date some 80,000 books (mostly out-of-print or out of copyright) have been digitized. This multinational effort includes scanning centers in India, China and Egypt among other places and features texts from multiple languages. (Source: LISNews)