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The ReLire Digitization Project is Facing Questions of Accuracy, Validity, and Legality

14 April, 201314 April, 2013Digitization6 Comments

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...

Internet Archive to Pay Employees in Bitcoin – Donations Needed

22 February, 20136 September, 2015Digitization3 Comments

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...

Google Engineer Releases Design For an Automated Vacuum Powered Book Scanner

14 November, 201215 May, 2016Digitization6 Comments

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...

Author’s Guild Objects to 1DollarScan

23 August, 201215 May, 2016Digitization18 Comments

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...

My NASA Map Book is Now Available at the Internet Archive

5 December, 20116 September, 2015Blast from the Past, DigitizationOne Comment

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...

What Should You do with Your Books After Crossing the Digital Divide?

3 October, 20116 September, 2015Digitization

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...

Internet Archive Just Scanned their 3 Millionth Text

17 September, 20116 September, 2015DigitizationOne Comment

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...

Scanning a Braille Playboy

17 August, 20116 September, 2015Blast from the Past, Digitization3 Comments

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...