Archive.org: Every Book in the World at Your Fingertips
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/Brewster_Kahle_Universal_Access_to_All_Knowledge Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, discusses their mission to digitize all the world's books. He explains that in addition to making the books available online, they've also built bookmobiles that can provide print copies of these books o... Read more
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- -: Archive.org: Every Book in the World at Your Fingertips
December 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/Brewster_Kahle_Universal_Access_to_All_Knowledge Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, discusses their mission to digitize all the world's books. He explains that in addition to making the books available online, they've also built bookmobi...
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