tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137713.post8028227345848927394..comments2024-03-19T16:26:45.863-04:00Comments on Digitization 101: Interview with Brewster KahleJill Hurst-Wahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355882159165026398noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137713.post-51667100097180201792007-04-03T00:27:00.000-04:002007-04-03T00:27:00.000-04:00Enjoyed reading your post.For everyone’s info, we ...Enjoyed reading your post.<BR/><BR/>For everyone’s info, we at Bookyards ( http://www.bookyards.com ) have compiled a good collection of free digital libraries with books available for downloading for free. Just go to Bookyards “Library Collections - E Books” at http://www.bookyards.com/links.html?type=links&category_id=1780<BR/>There are approximately 550 digital libraries separated alphabetically and by category, with over 500,000 unique ebooks<BR/><BR/>Bookyards is a free online library located at www.bookyards.comWar News Updates Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12034101783150523332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137713.post-80040105070254908382007-03-30T10:32:00.000-04:002007-03-30T10:32:00.000-04:00Perhaps the 10 cents per page includes the cost of...Perhaps the 10 cents per page includes the cost of digitizing, as well as storage/backup for same?<BR/><BR/>There is an interesting article in the New Yorker about Google's scanning efforts, it reveals details which I don't believe have been mentioned before:<BR/><BR/>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/05/070205fa_fact_toobin<BR/><BR/>One thing that is different is the vast scale of Google's efforts, they are picking up 1000 books every workday! And that's just for Stanford, not even taking into account all the other libraries that are partnered with Google.<BR/><BR/>Also, the chief engineer on the book scanning project mentions on page 3:<BR/><BR/>“Previously, when people have done scanning, they always were constrained by their budget and their scale,” Clancy told me. “They had to spend all this time figuring out which were the perfect ten thousand books, so they spent as much time in selection as in scanning. All the technology out there developed solutions for what I’ll call low-rate scanning. There was no need for a company to build a machine that could scan thirty million books. Doing this project just using commercial, off-the-shelf technology was not feasible. So we had to build it ourselves.”<BR/><BR/>Google will not discuss its proprietary scanning technology, but, rather than investing in page-turning equipment, the company employs people to operate the machines, I was told by someone familiar with the process. “Automatic page-turners are optimized for a normal book, but there is no such thing as a normal book,” Clancy said. “There is a great deal of variability over books in a library, in terms of size or dust or brittle pages.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com