Online Library

It should be done

Microsoft said Friday it is ending its quest to create an online library of the world's books (as the technology titan revamps its strategy to battle Internet search king Google).

I don't know who the torch may be being passed to, but I certainly hope it's someone. The world deserves, in the future, a resource like this. It sounds like Microsoft has it's priorities screwed up (although, admittedly, I would want the world's library to be available online free of charge, like any other library).

Couldn't the public be enlisted to scan the books of the world onto a database during their free time, like other projects do? Maybe Microsoft could create an invention that could be slid across the page of a book, and people could be paid (in free access to the library?) for doing so, or after completing an unregistered book.

Just an idea.