I was wondering this too, is seems like the entire warehouse could be packed up and shipped for less than $25,000 so why not add these to the dataset that is Google Books
Jason works for the Internet Archive, which has a very large (and cost-effective) book scanning operation, and makes books as accessible as possible
But the annual budget of the non-profit Internet Archive is probably the same as Google's annual budget for White-Out and blue pens.
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