Google Creating Online Reading Room
Stacks of hard-to-find books are being scanned into Google Inc.'s widely used Internet search engine in its attempt to establish a massive online reading room for five major libraries.
Material from the New York public library as well as libraries at four universities — Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and Oxford — will be indexed on Mountain View, Calif.-based Google under the ambitious initiative announced late Monday.
Google is picking up the estimated $150 million tab to have employees on-site at the libraries begin scanning books, page by page. More than 50 million potential books are part of the project.
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