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Printing & Publishing · Recorded milestone

Mass book scanning

Recorded year2004

Google Print, later Google Books, starts scanning whole university libraries in 2004 and passes 40 million scanned titles by 2019.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.