Digitized books
John Maxymuk
(Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA)
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Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how some companies are scanning books to make the text fully searchable.
Design/methodology/approach
Discusses several cases of scanning books and fully searchable text.
Findings
By making so much forgotten text searchable, accessible and potentially relevant again, digitalization allows us to be full‐fledged players in the contemporary information arena.
Originality/value
Provides examples of fully searchable texts.
Keywords
Citation
Maxymuk, J. (2007), "Digitized books", The Bottom Line, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 153-156. https://doi.org/10.1108/08880450710843987
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited