Although Google gets most of the headlines these days when it comes to the scanning of books, it’s worth mentioning that the Text Archive at the Internet Archive continues to expand. As of Monday (August 8th) afternoon, the collection has over 1.57 million full text books. According to a recent post by Greg Newby in Project Gutenberg News, the Text Archive grows by about 1000 titles per day.
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+ The Wayback Machine now has over 150 million archived web pages (back to 1996) and their Archive-It program has over 100 partners.
+ Over 193,000 Archived Moving Images
+ Over 67,000 Recorded Concerts
+ More than 383,000 Archived Audio Files
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