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From: Subha Venkatesan 

>In context of this posting, here  are a few sites where scanned books
>are online and I have found quite a few books at the site " the
>million book project".  Here are a couple of downloads.

sripedia was born of an interest to assist in such an
effort, and has assisted the internet archive, the million
book project and TTD in their efforts.

I might suggest the following

1. There are well-funded eforts underway that will sooner
or later reach organized (libraries etc) and semi organized
(institutions etc.) organizations.
2. the efforts of individuals on this list may best be placed
in 'identifying' manuscripts that reside in individual or
adhoc collections.
3. a manuscript registry has been setup towards just such an
effort.
http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/cgi-bin/manuscript

Note: Individuals who treasure rare works who maybe concerened with
parting with these works for the sake of digitizing will most likely
welcome a cataloging effort that merely wishes to 'record' the
availability of such a work.

Finally, digitizing, archiving and preservation are not sprints
but long marathons and a small first step that individuals such
as those on this list might take could be in assisting with the
cataloging of available rare works in individual and adhoc collections.

Thanks
S. Sriram


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