Although millions of books have been made available online in recent years - notably through Google books' mass scanning program -ancient texts have taken much longer to emerge from the archives.

近年来，通过谷歌图书的批量化图书扫描工作虽然已有数以百万计的图书都能够让人们在线阅览，但是要把古文本从图书馆搬到网上所花费的时间却要长得多。

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"Many of us are objecting because we have been working together for years on the mass scanning of out-of-print books - and have worked to get books online for far longer than Google - and Google's 'settlement' could hurt our efforts, " wrote Brewster Khale of the Internet Archive in a blog post earlier this week.

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