Campaign to increase digitised books to 2 million

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Friday, 16 July 2010 17:33pm

Digital librarian Brewster Kahle has launched a worldwide campaign to double the number of books available to people who need access to books in digital formats.

Founder of the virtual library Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle has announced that one million books had been scanned and made available to people who are blind or vision impaired.

Over a third of these books are available in the Digital Accessible Information System or DAISY talking book format, with all others openly accessible.

The Internet Archive is financially supported by the US government, foundations and libraries.

Further information about the campaign can be found on the USA Today website.



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