11.12.2013 - 10:09 [ Atlantic ]

Norway Decided to Digitize All the Norwegian Books

Yes. All. The. Books. In Norwegian, at least. Hundreds of thousands of them. Every book in the library‘s holdings.

By law, „all published content, in all media, [must] be deposited with the National Library of Norway,“ so when the library is finished scanning, the entire record of a people‘s language and literature will be machine-readable and sitting in whatever we call the cloud in 15 years.