How would you like if you can read all the books in the world from online? Innovative technology make everything possible now a days. Open Library is such an organization who is working hard to make this dream come true for all information seekers specially book lovers.

A recent article at O’Reilly rader published this news on July 16th. The Open Library project is open for demonstration. They developers for this project need feedback from different section of internet community. The target of this project is to digitalized entire collection of books from all over the word. Now, you can guess how enormous and how difficult this project can be.

The Open Library’s major drawback can be failure to protect copyrighted material & non textual content which mean it cannot be found in any search engines. Because all of us are aware that search engines cannot read images. However, the demo version of this book library has an internal search application and project developers are working to expand that to external search system. If you want to know how you can help this development to grow visit the link and learn more about individual contribution.

People behind this big picture are:

• Anand Chitipothu, Programmer
• Daniel Giffin, Programmer
• Paul Rubin, Programmer
• Rebecca Malamud, Designer
• Alexis Rossi, Manager
• Aaron Swartz, Leader
• Brewster Kahle, Overseer

The brainstorming session for this Open library project started at the beginning of this year and they were successful to create a demo version of this project within a very shot time of 6-7 months. The major competitor or i should say similar project to this open library would be Wikipedia.org. Welcome to the next generation virtual world of information.