Excellent Guardian profile of the Open Library

Another excellent article from The Guardian. This is rapidly becoming one of my favorite news sources for books.

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Off the shelf and on to the web:

Imagine a library where you can find all the books in the first place you look. Imagine you can search, Google-style, over their text, and then feel the pages between your fingers, or see the tea splotches of the first readers, long dead. And imagine doing all of this in your own home.

The plan is a book lover’s dream; and the particular book lover intent on creating this Open Library is Brewster Kahle, known as the digital librarian of the internet.

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