Online library gives readers access to 1.5 million books

The Royal Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest libraries of the world. Although there is still controversy among scholars and historians as to the exact circumstances of the destruction of this great library, it is clear that the losses are a tragedy for us all. I read, with great interest, the progress of the Million Book Project.The Million Book Project is an venture led by Carnegie Mellon University, Zhejiang University, Indian Institute of Science and the Library at Alexandria. They have undertaken the tasks of digitizing more than 1.5 million books are made they available online. Not only are the images scanned and digitized, but the text have been converted by optical character recognition, which will allow the texts to be indexed and searched. This goes a long way in ensuring that the materials may exist in indefinitely

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