Google is partnering with Harvard to make 40,000 of the University’s library books searchable online in a pilot project that could lead to the digitization of all 15 million books in Harvard’s ...

Stacks of hard-to-find books are being scanned into Google Inc.'s widely used Internet search engine in its attempt to establish a massive online reading room for five major libraries. The Michigan ...

Does my brain look small in this? Scans can be used to detect brain shrinkage. Flickr/bucaorg As many as 500 brain scans are performed in Scotland every week. These scans are mostly used to diagnose - ...

If you thought the controversy over library book scanning ended with the Google case, think again. This week the National Writers Union became the latest organization to join the outcry over a ...

When the Visigoths burned Library Of Alexandria you can bet that old Ptolemy I Soter would have loved to have had a Czur (pronounced “Cesar”) scanner in his palatial marble-clad staterooms. The is ...

Bookworms who like to be able to keep all of their favorite books on a digital reader, but don't want to buy all of their favorite print titles over to get them in digital versions can take advantage ...

This December, Harvard partnered with Google to make millions of the University’s books searchable online in an ambitious and controversial initiative to digitize five library collections. The Google ...