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KaylinQ rated 4 months ago
From the page:
"The Universal Digital Library Million Book Collection
Online Library Gives Readers Access To 1.5 Million Books
The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online.
the Million Book Project represents the world's largest, university-based digital library of freely accessible books. At least half of its books are out of copyright, or were digitized with the permission of the copyright holders, so the complete texts are or eventually will be available free.
The collection includes a large number of rare and orphan books. More than 20 languages are represented among the 1.5 million books, a little more than 1 percent of all of the world's books.
Many of the books, particularly those in Chinese and English, have been digitized -- their text converted by optical character recognition methods into computer readable text. That allows these books to be searched and, eventually, reformatted for access by PDAs and other devices.
- annelock rated 8 months ago
- E books. Lots of neat stuff.
- tikifrank rated 8 months ago
- Carnegie Mellon University is in the process of digitizing the sum of human knowledge. Pretty cool stuff. You probably can't find the latest Harry Potter on this site, but there's a whole lot more out there to read than just that.
- TwistTim2006 rated 8 months ago
- Here's the site I just found the News.com article on... time to get busy looking around seeing what they have...
