Google Digitizing British Library

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Google has struck a deal with the British Library to make 250,000 items from its collection available online. It will take Google 3 years to digitize the out-of-print texts, ranging from colonial history to pamphlets about Marie Antionette. Google has already scanned 13 million books worldwide. Read the full article at Guardian.co.uk

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