Digitized books

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.

Citation

Maxymuk, J. (2007), "Digitized books", The Bottom Line, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 153-156. https://doi.org/10.1108/08880450710843987