Norway digitizing all of its books and will make them free to read online National Library of Norway All of the books in the National Library of Norway s collection will be digitized. They will process the text to make it searchable and make them available to read online. � It s similar to the mass digitization efforts in the�UK�and�Finland, but Norway has taken the extra step of making agreements with many publishers to allow anyone with a Norway IP address to access copyrighted material. The library owns equipment for scanning and text structure analysis of the books. It s also adding metadata and storing the files in a database for easy retrieval. Librarians estimate the digitization of the entire collection, which includes materials dating back to the Middle Ages, will take 20 to 30 years. The effort started in 2006. Photo credit: WikiMedia Commons Via The Verge � Share ThisSubscribedel.icio.usFacebookRedditStumbleUponTechnorati