Sunday, March 15, 2009

The Open Library — Alexandria 2.0

Discovered by accident: the OPEN LIBRARY, whose modest goal is one web page for every book ever published, with online scanned versions whenever possible. To date approx 30 million books have been indexed, about 20 million are listed on the site now and, of these, approx one million scanned books are readable (and searchable). Plus you can download the scanned books as pdf files to read on your Kindle. It's all the brainchild of internet savant Brewster Kahle, founder of the INTERNET ARCHIVE. Read about this remarkable project HERE.