Scanning world's every book means turning many, many pages

By NATASHA ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer, Technology / Other

In a room dimly lit for the sake of capturing the pages of fragile antique books, Courtney Mitchel helps a giant desktop machine digest a rare, centuries-old Bible in Ann Arbor, Mich., March 21, 2008. Mitchel is among hundreds of librarians from Minnesota to England helping Google Inc.'s Book Search create digital versions of all the estimated 50 million to 100 million books in the world and make them readily available online for free for people everywhere. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

(AP) -- In a dimly lit back room on the second level of the University of Michigan library's book-shelving department, Courtney Mitchel helped a giant desktop machine digest a rare, centuries-old Bible.

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