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Discuss “Library Project saves out-of-print books”

In the past weeks the technology world has been focused on digital books. Amazon’s Kindle, a hand-held e-book reader that comes with a service for downloading books and newspapers, was released to a frenzied media. Just over a week later Carnegie Mellon announced that its Universal Digital Library Project has now surpassed 1.5 million books.

While we know trying to stop technology is frequently a futile task, we’re still wary of plans that separate words from paper. While the convenience of being able to have any book nearly instantly or bringing one’s entire library in the portable size of a single book on vacation is appealing, there are some chilling realities that sound more like details in a dystopian future.

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