@business.ai.daily: The Internet Archive shared a look at how it turns physical books into digital copies. Each book is placed inside a specialized scanning station, where an operator carefully turns and captures every page by hand. The scans are then processed and uploaded so the books can be preserved, searched, and read online. The Internet Archive has digitized millions of books this way since the project began, and the process has actually become a point of legal controversy too, publishers have sued over its lending practices, arguing that scanning and lending copyrighted books digitally goes beyond what libraries are traditionally allowed to do. Slow, careful work that helps keep decades of knowledge accessible for the future. Follow @business.ai for more innovations reshaping how we experience technology #internetarchive #digitalpreservation #books #technology #archiving