Receptional - 1:49 pm on Nov 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

Interesting find Engine.

So - some maths. $2.5 million investment divided by 100,000 books is $25 per book - about UK£15. From that moment on, nobody needs to buy a copy of the book again, potentially.

Tough break for the village of Hay-on-Wye - the countries foremost location for buying out of date and rare titled second hand books. Great break if you can't get to Hay-on-Wye.

There's got to be some nifty equipment to be able to scan 100,000 books and retrieve the data reliably for £15 per book. Not exactly a £50 scanner from PC World! :)

Also - Once scanned, the data will immediately be available on the British Library website and indexed by Google! Interesting times.