The Internet Archive Demonstrates How They Digitize Books in Their Collection One Page at a Time
In honor of digitizing more than 2 million books, the Internet Archive (previously) employee Eliza Zhang demonstrates the wonderful binding-saving manner in which these books are scanned, one page at a time. Zhang told co-worker Wendy Hanamura that she enjoys this work immensely.
When I asked Eliza what she likes about her job, she replied, Everything! I find everything interesting. I don't feel it is boring. Every collection is important to me."
Chris Freeland, director of Open Libraries at Internet Archive, further explains the process.
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