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Discuss “Carnegie Mellon-led project writes new, digital chapter for out-of-print texts”

The Carnegie Mellon-led Million Book Project announced Wednesday that it has successfully put over 1.5 million books online.

Founded and directed by School of Computer Science professor Raj Reddy, the Million Book Project has purportedly surpassed similar scanning projects such as Google Book Search and The Internet Archive. The project is supported by two grants totaling $3.6 million, partners from China’s Zhejiang University and the Chinese Academy of Science, the Indian Institute of Science, and Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina. These partners contributed scanning facilities and personnel, trained by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. The project supplies scans in subjects ranging from politics and religion to science and engineering...

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