Digitization projects like the HathiTrust, Project Gutenberg, or the Internet Archive can be a good thing when treated as a nonprofit effort, but when you mix in a commercial interest...Continue reading
Category: Digitization
Internet Archive to Pay Employees in Bitcoin – Donations Needed
The Internet Archive made a surprising announcement yesterday: As Bitcoin is becoming the “local currency” of the Internet, then the Internet Archive would like to help support it and use...Continue reading
Google Engineer Releases Design For an Automated Vacuum Powered Book Scanner
Scanning your own books is so 2010, but those of you who are living in the past are probably going to get a kick out of the following scanning rig....Continue reading
Author’s Guild Objects to 1DollarScan
A couple weeks back I showed you that the Lendink lynch mob was caused by a bunch of authors who didn’t understand law, technology, or the contracts they had signed....Continue reading
My NASA Map Book is Now Available at the Internet Archive
From time to time I’ve written about the Internet Archive, a non-for-profit organization that is dedicated to digitizing and uploading as much content as they can get their hands on....Continue reading
What Should You do with Your Books After Crossing the Digital Divide?
If you’re in San Francisco, you might consider following in the footsteps of the SF Public Library, who just donated 130 thousand books to the Internet Archive. Like most public...Continue reading
Internet Archive Just Scanned their 3 Millionth Text
The IA announced Friday night that they had achieved a new milestone. It’s 6 years now that they’ve been scanning and uploading public domain titles and this is the week...Continue reading
Scanning a Braille Playboy
Jason Scott guest-posted on the Internet Archive blog last night, and he wrote about how he got the IA to scan and archive an old copy of Playboy. Why do...Continue reading
