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Tuesday, December 14, 2004

All the Books in the World, and Not a Word to Read

The Harvard Library may have a reputation as tougher to get into than Yale's secret society the Skulls, but Google might just be Changing That. The whole process uses a new, google designed scanning process that is more gentle on books and promises to allow users to scan through tens of thousands of books [Harvard has promised 40,000 books, though if all goes well, their 15,000,000 volumes could one day, be online].

But here's the trouble. What good is all this, if we don't read anything anyway?

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