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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Er... Well, there was Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders (admittedly only for out-of-copyright books -- they don't have a legal budget!). The "Million Book project" kicked off by CMU's own Dr. Raj Reddy. A Microsoft effort whose name I forget. Some smaller efforts through some European national libraries (details are too hazy for me to remember -- damn these senior moments!).
Xenophon
(at Carnegie Mellon University "CMU")
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Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders aren't comparable, as they aren't really book
search efforts. PG seeks to create electronic copies of works in the public domain, originally in plain text and increasingly in HTML fiormats, and Distributed Proofreaders seeks to support the effort by proofing texts of works in progress. (Some of the earlier PG contributions of classics before DP came about are fairly dire in terms of quality. Ask HarryT about the state of the Dickens offerings...)
Once they are up on PG, they *become* searchable, but that's a fringe benefit.
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Dennis