6388 texts: Million Book Project

Pioneered by Jaime Carbonell, Raj Reddy, Michael Shamos, Gloriana St Clair, and Robert Thibadeau of Carnegie Mellon University, the goal of The Million Book Project is to digitize a million books by 2005. The task will be accomplished by scanning the books and indexing their full text with OCR technology. The undertaking will create a free-to-read, searchable digital library the approximate size of the combined libraries at Carnegie Mellon University, and one much bigger than the holdings of any high school library. The pilot Thousand Book Project has already been successfully completed and can be accessed here.

Beim oberflächlichen Scrollen festgestellt: viele sehr schöne Texte dabei. Übrigens sehr viele Werke über Indien, Indisches, indische Geschichte, Landeskunde, Buddhismus und dergleichen. Störend sind allerdings extrem lange Ladezeiten bei manchen Listen.