November 29, 2007

Site offers readers access to 1.5 million books

There is a great new project being developed between Carnegie Mellon University in the States, the Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India, and the Alexandria in Egypt where they have managed to completely digitise more than 1.5 million books to make them available online.

The online library will be available to all, and as over half of the books are out of copyright this gives the opportunity for anyone to check them online for free, those books that have copyrights have been copied with permission.

However this may seem to be a huge library and there are over twenty different languages represented, and yet the 1.5 million books is only around one per cent of all the books published in the world.

Source [Physorg]