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Yes, but which eReaders will they work on?
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Canada's been doing similar work for years; we just have a whoooole lot more books, so it's taking a long time. (The University of Toronto has a gigantic scanning centre in Robarts Library, and government archives and university libraries from all over Canada loan their material, a shipping container at a time, to the library to get it scanned. It's all available on-line. And yes, the Internet Archive is providing a lot of the technology and assistance here, too.)

I took a tour of the U of T's scanning facility, and posted some stories and pictures here: http://cow.livejournal.com/581988.html

@1 They get scanned into images, and the images and OCRd text are both made available. So, anything that can handle text or images. If your eReader can't, that would be sad.
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Okay, one difference (re-reading the linked article) between the Canadian and Icelandic projects is that the Canadian stuff still follows copyright, for now; the still-copyrighted materials are scanned and preserved, but not made available (yet). (There's a lot of work going on to see if they could at least be made available on a limited basis, but those discussions aren't complete.)
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Now David Lesperance is trying to rape Iceland.

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