So, how do Google Scan all those Books?

January 9th 2006

If you, like me, assumed that Google Books used some clever machinery, like this...

[Image from http://www.kirtas-tech.com]

... to scan in all these millions of books they are scanning, think again!

[Image from Google Books -Link to this page on Google Books! ]

UPDATE 1st March 2006
Google have fixed the page! I'm impressed - they went back and rescanned it - I hope that they're doing that to all broken pages, not just because of this page.