Amazing. Who knew archive.org is so many things doing?! Digitizing books with scanning centers that together add a new book every 90 seconds to the archive.
Wow, their book reading interface is incredible! It's actually a real joy to read even the most uninteresting scribbles with that interface. Wow. Now THAT is a design ebook-readers (... or the file format) need to adopt.
I wonder how many blind multilinguists exist (that can read braille in multiple languages) . I imagine there's a lot of character collisions between different braille alphabets, but I suppose it wouldn't be any more difficult than (visually) reading, say, English and Spanish, which have virtually identical alphabets.
Where are their scanning centers? The link (http://www.archive.org/scanning) said they have lots of them, but doesn't describe where. I assume I can't just show up and expect to get my books scanned, so I'd be interested to understand the process better. Can an individual participate or are they only working with their partners?
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 21.6 ms ] threadAlso, I had no idea archive.org has such a beautiful book reading interface! (eg. http://www.archive.org/stream/keartonsnaturepi01kearrich)
https://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille#Braille_for_other_scrip...
I wonder how many blind multilinguists exist (that can read braille in multiple languages) . I imagine there's a lot of character collisions between different braille alphabets, but I suppose it wouldn't be any more difficult than (visually) reading, say, English and Spanish, which have virtually identical alphabets.