Category: Digitization

Tom Mighell over at Inter Alia reports on a cool service called PublicDomainReprints.org whereby you can order a reprint of a book in the public domain. Here’s how it works: 1. You request any public domain book from the Internet Archive or Google Books. 2. The book is processed and submitted to Lulu, a no …

A couple interesting stories on book digitization crossed my path this week. The first is an article in EdTech about UW Madison’s involvement in the Google Book project. Google this spring began scanning 500,000 of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s 7.9 million library holdings, including collections on American and Wisconsin history, medicine, engineering and genealogical materials. …