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When we go to the library, we read books/*search for and/share information and have a
*discussion with others. // Libraries are very convenient places. /The library has a long history of
collecting and keeping books. /Books have been an important part of culture. Around 1445
Johann Gutenberg *invented the *printing machine./ Libraries began to collect the hooks *printed
by the printing machine, and the number of libraries grew./ Now some libraries have begun to
*digitalize a lot of books. Some people say most of the books will become digitalized *data/ When
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all the books are digitalized, what will the future of the library be? / Some even say the library will
disappear. Will that really happen?
To answer this question, we first have to see how people have digitalized books. We can say
the idea of digitalizing books began with Michael Hart in 1971/ He was able to use an expensive
computer,/so he thought he could do something good for other people by using it. A computer can
keep a lót of data/and it can search for the data in a very short time./When the computer has a lot
of digitalized data from the books, these data become an important part of culture. / Michael Hart
thought that people would use these data as they like, His idea became a *project. /He couldn't
digitalize books which had *copyright, so he digitalized books which were *in the public domain
and collected them in a computer./ People were able to read the distalized books without *paying
any money.
Hart named his project “Project Gutenberg," |He thought his project was as
important as Gutenberg's printing machine, because the printing machine also spread knowledge
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all over the world. / Project Gutenberg continues even after Hart died in 2011. Now you can read
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