The Universal Digital Library's audacious goal
A book-scanning project backed by major libraries of the world has finished digitizing 1.5 million books, and has made them publicly available on the 'Net.
Users can download texts in the public domain, or by books by authors who've given permission.
Michael Shamos, director of intellectual property of the Universal Digital Library, says the project's goal is to digitize all published works since the beginning of time and make them available to anyone in the world over the 'net.
