The University of California libraries have joined a national project to create a shared archive of books scanned into electronic format. Called HathiTrust (pronounced “hah-tee”), it will include items scanned by Google in a project now under way.
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Update 11/13/08: An experimental full-text search of the 500,000 books in the HathiTrust database is now available.