The Infinite Library

From the MIT tech review

"When it was announced that the Library contained all books, the first reaction was unbounded joy" - JLB, "The library of Babel"

Borges must be turning in his grave. The good man, when he came up with the idea of an infinite library, imagined it to be a sort of labyrinth. Look what it's turned out to be !

So here's an inside look at the google project that's been getting a lot of attention lately. There's lot of stuff in there I didn't know - e.g. did you know that google started life as a citation-analysis type project ? So the chakra's come full circle.

But the most interesting factoids for me were about the Bodleian library at Oxford which apparently lives in the 18th century - many of its old volumes are still chained to the shelves.