Thursday, September 5, 2013

Maze made out of 250 000 Books!!



Stunning! 

Want to get lost in a good book? Well, now you can literally lose yourself in a few good books thanks to Brazilian artists, Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo.
Books destined for art and other creative uses in the era of digital books ??

Duke sets the standard! New service to users: Digitize This Book

Internet Archive Scribe 
From stacks to scanner to your inbox. We’re piloting a new service to digitize public domain books for Duke users on demand.
digitize_this_book2Starting this semester, Duke University faculty, students, and staff can request to have certain public domain books scanned on demand. If a book is published before 1923* and located in the Perkins, Bostock, Lilly, or Music Library or in the Library Service Center (LSC), a green “Digitize This Book” button (pictured here) will appear in its online catalog record. Clicking on this button starts the request.
Within two weeks (although likely sooner), you will get an email with a link to the digitized book in the Duke University Libraries collections on the Internet Archive. You—and the rest of the world—can now read this book online, download it to your Kindle, export it as a PDF, or get it as a fully searchable text-only file. And you never have to worry about late fees or recalls!