Comments on: Microsoft to catch up on its reading

Super scanner and Cornell join Microsoft's project to digitize tomes for the Windows Live Book Search project.
Photo: Robotic scanner

[Penguinisto]

Hopefully they're using ODF...

No matter what OS we're talking about, there will certainly come a day when MSFT proprietary formats will be dead and gone (even between MS Office versions, this is already true...)

I just hope Cornell uses a universal, OPEN format that future readers of any type can successfully convert to human-readable text.

/P

[hybris06]

Probably a PDF

My guess as a recent Cornell graduate and my experience with the Cornell Libraries, the files will probably be PDFs.

The Cornell libraries scan a lot of content from books and journals and post them to a secured site for students to access for classes. Everything they post is in the PDF format.

[Ryo Hazuki]

Hopefully they're using PDF

Last time I checked, Microsoft proprietary format from Microsoft Office was not dead yet.
I do hope though they are using PDF, it's the best IMHO.