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Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

By Bill Detwiler June 22, 2006, 8:55 PM PDT on Twitter billdetwiler

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Brewster Kahle, the librarian of Alexandria, v.2
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Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

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Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

The Internet Archive offices in San Francisco’s Presidio, a former military base that now houses mostly nonprofits.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

Using an online database, an Internet Archive book processor verifies that the copyright on an O’Henry book has expired.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

Internet Archive workers staff the book scanning machines at the University of California’s Northern Regional Library Facility in Richmond, Calif., near Berkeley.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

A worker scanning books uses a foot pedal to lift and lower a V-shaped cradle and glass plate that hold the book pages down while two cameras shoot pictures.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

A worker turns the pages of a book.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

This image shows what appears on the screen in front of the person scanning books.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

The original book from that scan.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

Some old books arrive in sorry shape. The Scribe scanners were designed to avoid damaging the books. Other scanning methods require workers to cut bindings.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

The scanned and digitized books can then easily be printed.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

The scanned books are exact duplicates of the originals, even down to the library check-out slips and envelopes.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

Kahle shows off an antenna from the free wireless Internet project SFLan.org.

Photos: Internet Archive’s ambitious vision

Robert Miller, director of books at the Internet Archive, in front of the entrance to the book scanning offices at the University of California.

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