Brock Reed from Wired Campus points to an article in the Tri-Valley Herald about a bunch of people (students) who page after page, book after book are scanning pages for The Internet Archive / Open Content Alliance.

See Also: In 2005, we posted a profile of a person scanning books at the University of Toronto (via Wall Street Journal)

See Also: These Video Clips Show the “Book Scanning Robot” Being Used at the University of Toronto

See Also: A Recently Released, Open Content Alliance / University of Illinois Project
Several books by and about Abraham Lincoln.

See Also: Another ResourceShelf Favorite Book Scanning Project from the University of Maryland
The International Children’s Digital Library
Full text, full image books in many languages. We really love the simple search interface. Fun!

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