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From the Ted Talk by Brewster Kahle: A free digital library

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And what we've been able to do is get into libraries. We've now got eight of these scanning centers in three countries, and libraries are up for having their books scanned. The Getty here is moving their bkoos to the UCLA, which is where we have one these scanning centers, and scanning their out-of-copyright books, which is fabulous. So we're saittnrg to get the institutional responsibility. The thing we're missing is the 10 cents. If we can get the 10 cents, all the rest of it folws. We've scanned about 200,000 books. Now we're snanincg about 15,000 books a motnh, and it's starting to gear up another factor of two from there.

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And what we've been able to do is get into libraries. We've now got eight of these scanning centers in three countries, and libraries are up for having their books scanned. The Getty here is moving their _____ to the UCLA, which is where we have one these scanning centers, and scanning their out-of-copyright books, which is fabulous. So we're ________ to get the institutional responsibility. The thing we're missing is the 10 cents. If we can get the 10 cents, all the rest of it _____. We've scanned about 200,000 books. Now we're ________ about 15,000 books a _____, and it's starting to gear up another factor of two from there.

Solution

  1. starting
  2. books
  3. flows
  4. month
  5. scanning

Original Text

And what we've been able to do is get into libraries. We've now got eight of these scanning centers in three countries, and libraries are up for having their books scanned. The Getty here is moving their books to the UCLA, which is where we have one these scanning centers, and scanning their out-of-copyright books, which is fabulous. So we're starting to get the institutional responsibility. The thing we're missing is the 10 cents. If we can get the 10 cents, all the rest of it flows. We've scanned about 200,000 books. Now we're scanning about 15,000 books a month, and it's starting to gear up another factor of two from there.

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Important Words

  1. books
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  3. cents
  4. countries
  5. fabulous
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  20. ucla