cashman73's Journal: Carnegie Mellon's digital library exceeds 1.5 million books

Most slashdotters are probably familiar with Google's book scanning project with several major universities. But Google may have been beat to the punch this time -- about a decade ago, Carnegie Mellon University embarked on a project to scan books into digital format, to be made available online. Today, according to new reports, they now have a collection of 1.5 million books, the equivalent of a typical university library, available online. Of course, on the downside, most of the books are in Chinese, so I hope they don't get blocked by the great firewall of China.