Hathitrust.org allows researchers to perform full-text searches of millions of pages of scanned texts. Users can view full images of out-of-copyright books and perform searches of some books still within copyright. There are a variety of ways to interact with and save the images. Some of this material is on other sites, but it is possible that a key word or phrase has been read differently or that a book was available for digitization here that is not on other sites.
From their website–they currently have digitized:
- 16,431,171 total volumes
- 8,003,093 book titles
- 441,256 serial titles
- 5,750,909,850 pages
- 736 terabytes
- 194 miles
- 13,350 tons
One example from Hathitrust.org–a 1918 copy of “Railway Maintenance Engineer”
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