from The Chronicle of Higher Education -
University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library
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Though initially driven by commercial interests, the digitisation of books could see social spin-offs if we can wait long enough for copyrights to expire. An interesting aside, the project to share digital version of scanned books is called Hathi - Hindi for "elephant" - as:

"The name resonated really well because elephants remember, elephants are large, and elephants are strong,"

And one might add, they are social creatures, too.

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