Library of public domain books preview -- MSFT will add 150k titles in 06The Open Content Alliance is scanning in hundreds
of thousands of public-domain books. According to Internet Archive founder
Brewster Kahle, "At an Internet Archive event in San Francisco tonight 14
libraries and MSN joined the Open Content Alliance. MSN kicked off their
association by committing to
scan 150k books in 2006! (this is a big deal, in my opinion). "
As if that's not cool enough, there's a preview of one of the ways that you'll be able to read the Alliance's output that's just gone live. It has a gorgeous in-browser book-viewer that combines the best elements of a physical book (tactility, the idiosyncracies of printed type) with an electronic book (zoomability, searchability, text-to-speech). It's gorgeous. http://www.openlibrary.org/ Amalyah Keshet
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