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Books On Hard Drives

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  • on May 15, 2006 at 10:18 am

The NYT Magazine this weekend had an excellent piece on the quest to digitize the entire corpus of written works in the world. If you didn’t have the time or interest to wade through it, WorldChanging and Boing Boing have excerpted different parts for their site. If you’d like you can wade through the entire thing here. Can you imagine a day when you carry a searchable archive every book ever written on your iPod? The entire world will instantaneously be smarter. It will be a day of jubilation.

Photo: Abelardo Morell / Bonni Benrubi Gallery for the NY Times.

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