Over 1 Million Digital Books Now Available Free to the Print-Disabled
The Internet Archive just doubled the number of books for the print-disabled from classic books to current novels and educational material. This is done via the relaunched website with “one webpage for every book” http://openlibrary.org.
Publicly accessible books are in the open DAISY format. The database and search engines are still catching up but it will have over 1 million volumes for this community (over 500k titles).
Included are a large number of modern books that are put in the protected DAISY format the Library of Congress uses to distribute modern books to the blind and dyslexic.
The Archive is also launching a book drive– the first 10,000 books donated to the Internet Archive will be digitized and made as widely available as we can. With support in donated great books, and hopefully also financial support, the Archive will digitize even more.
Main post on the subject is here.
June 20th, 2010 at 4:17 am
Sounds Great very informative, This will help a lot on book readers. Thank you.
June 26th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
I think its a great news. Its impact is really huge. More on book readers will be helped either way or another. Thanks.
June 28th, 2010 at 12:55 am
The Internet Archive is proud to be distributing over 1 million free books in digital format, designed for those who find it challenging to use regular printed media.
July 8th, 2010 at 12:30 am
Great! I can’t wait to check it out. This is a great news for all of book lovers, readers and researchers. It will surely helps a lot.
August 1st, 2010 at 6:12 am
Thats really great news. I think world is becoming digital day by day….lol….
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:30 pm
thanks for digitizing great valuable data