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Online library reaches million book milestone

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Linux.com; By Liz Tay
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An international venture called the Universal Library Project has made more than one million books freely available in digitized format. The joint project of researchers from China, India, Egypt, and the US has the eventual aim of digitizing all published works of man, freeing the availability of information from geographic and socioeconomic boundaries, providing a basis for technological advancement, and preserving published works against time and tide.

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Where is the money in that? Whats the return? /sarcasm This project is worth all the money on Wall Street!

Something worthy to support.

>Something worthy to support.

I'll stick with Project Gutenberg, thanks.

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