In Love with Books N°1, Some Useful Projects in Book Digitization
“Though the night was made for loving
And the day returns too soon
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.”
―Lord Byron, We'll Go No More A-Roving
(Monday is the day of the Moon)
Some Useful Projects in Book Digitization
Inspired by the My 3 Book Stack For Show Your Stack Contest post by @headchange
Overview: Unlike the discrete digital collections or non-mass preservation projects which pick up specific books, mass digitization of books is the conversion of material into scanned documents on a large scale. The technology used is page-by-page photographing combined with the optical character recognition (OCR) software. Nonetheless, it produces limited in the structural markup searchable text and the OCR output is generally used without a second human revision. Non-mass digitization may produce richly marked-up text. Here, a list of useful online projects you can profit from to either learn and explore new literature or to refer to for book preservation.
Stay in love with books and reading!
Happy and Productive Week 22! Octavo Editions of Rare and Precious Books ProQuest (formerly Ebrary) Carnegie Mellon Million Book project Stanford university Library (SUL), Books in the Public Domain Michigan Digital Library Platform & Services (DLPS)
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This is great! I use to read at a lot of online libraries back in the 90's. It is really good to know they are still out there
Yes! I do profit as well! Yet, there is nothing as good as the metaphysical sensation of touching an ancient book, like French say "dans son jus"—in its original condition. I still feel the vivid memory of some moments as a collector—that of rejuvenating the imagination through the vibrational exhale of a book produced by the mere act of opening its covers and realizing that once hands of somebody I treasure held it as means of transport to the reality I live in... Maintaining an old book is like the charm of a deeply longed kiss from a time where the writer probably sensed that one day I would be holding it in my hands, giving that kiss back with comprehension and care... Kind regards! ∜mp