The Online Library

A couple of universities from all over the world (US, China, Egypt & India) are part of a joined venture to digitize books. Already 1.5 million books are available to anyone with a working internet connection.

Reddy says:

The economic barriers to the distribution of knowledge are falling.

This can be said of almost anything. The rise of the internet as a world, not parrallel with ours, but embedded within it has made it a lot easier to spread information around our little globe.

I wonder what will happen with books as a medium. Myself, I still enjoy to flip the pages of a book, to touch the paper, the smell of an old book, the fact that you can immerse yourself in a stack of flattened woodpulp. Reading books on the computer doesn't come anywhere near that.

Source: Physorg