[BC] Another public station bites the dust

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:11 PM 6/26/2006, Alan Kline wrote: -------

>Who's going to digitize and organize the millions and millions of books for
>that all-encompassing digital library?  More to the point, who's going to
>pay for it, and would it really be less expensive than maintaining the
>brick-and-mortar libraries? The simple logistics of organizing such a
>massive effort are mind-numbing.

It's already begun. The Gutenberg Project has already digitized about 
17,000 books whose copyrights have expired. Their hope is to digitize 
everything in print. This has been going on for years. Take a look at 
www.gutenberg.org

Except for research purposes, it does nothing for me. There's 
something about the printed word on paper (not including supermarket 
tabloids) that has an elegance digital will never equal.

Rich

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