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Originally Posted by BobLenx
In spite of OCR scanning errors, fingers on the scanner (love that page) and even complete gibberish in some sections of some of the books, this is a MASSIVE project that will grow rapidly. Google is doing an incredible job of scanning in books that are out of copyright. There are half a million now for our Sony eReaders. Within two years we may well be looking at several million and still growing. And of course Goggle's goal is to eventually have every book ever written available on the Internet. Yes they all need to be proofread, and eventually they will be. But with this effort and others such as Gutenberg, clearly the digital reading revolution is well on its way.
Many of these books will be virtually one of a kind - never before available to the public. The concept of what is being handed to us is staggering.
I for one am thrilled by this news.
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I totally agree. This is truly amazing! I'm now on my way to hunt for an old book called 'The Mottled Lizard' (I think). I tried to buy it about 8 years ago but it was out of print and unavailable.
edit: I see it's not a classic and not available. Not old enough...