National Library of Norway all the books are digitized and put online for people to read for free

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National Library of Norway said that from 2006 to now, they are conducting digitize all the books that they currently own and when completed, the data will be put online. This project is similar to what the British government has done and Finland, but besides moving the text books, the number of library managers also signed licensing agreements with publishers to give allows anyone with an IP address comes from Norway can search and read free books.


Library owns his own tools to scan and analyze text structures in a book. They also added some information about the book and then store them in a database for easy search more readers. Known National Library of Norway has to take books from the middle ages and to digitize entire libraries will take about 20 to 30 years.