“A core of Harvard professors are currently leading a national endeavor to digitize every book in the world—including the Gutenberg Bible—and make them available to every American through an internet-based service called the Digital Public Library of America.
“The DPLA, its leaders say, will place the resources of top research libraries in the world in the pocket of every American. They foresee a time when some of the most scarce books are easily accessible to ‘independent scholars’ on their home desktops and smart phones.”
From Gautam Kumar and Sirui Li’s article in the Harvard Crimson, “Digitizing Knowledge”