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Old 04-23-2017, 12:08 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It actually is. Do take a look the website. It's an absolutely fascinating place and aims very much to both store and disseminate the world's knowledge. Well worth a visit should you happen to be in Alexandria. It's the only place I've seen the kind of book scanner that Google use actually in action, which was very interesting.
I looked at the website before I responded to your initial post. It's not really clear from the website that is what the purpose is. Perhaps one has to visit it in Alexandria to get a clearer idea of what they are trying to do. I suspect it helps if one reads French or Arabic. When I searched for various authors it talked about various books and the number of copies, which lead me to think they were collecting books, not making them available online.
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