Internet giant Google has announced plans to scan 250,000 out of copyright books held by the British Library.
In a statement, the British Library said it will allow particularly old materials to be seen by anyone on the internet.
“This project will digitise a huge range of printed books, pamphlets and periodicals dated 1700 to 1870, the period that saw the French and Industrial Revolutions, The Battle of Trafalgar and the Crimean War, the invention of rail travel and of the telegraph, the beginning of UK income tax, and the end of slavery.”
“It will include material in a variety of major European languages, and will focus on books that are not yet freely available in digital form online.”
The first materials to be scanned will include pamphlets about French queen Marie-Antoinette
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