July 31, 2008 4:42 PM PDT
The system currently does not turn the pages smoothly and they frequently "stick." However, it is still possible to get a feel of reading the original book.
The project has moved on with the close co-operation of Microsoft. "What
(Microsoft) got out of it was a whole load of book content as they try to play catch-up with Google," Lilgert told ZDNet UK.
"So they approached us--because we have a very good relationship with Microsoft on a whole host of things--about digitizing a whole load of books. So what we got was someone who was going to help us with the funding of a large digitization project and we were getting more experience on actually digitizing the material in the first place," Lilgert said.
Photo by British Library
Caption by Colin Barker
