The Washington Times has a Story that says Slowly and painstakingly, Octavo, a company in Oakland, Calif., is creating a state-of-the-art digital facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible, in partnership with the Library of Congress, which owns one of three perfect copies in existence.
\”Every book has its own personality and behaves differently, owing to varied physical characteristics,\” Ms. Blegen says. \”This book is different because it has no page numbers and weighs more than most. I can\’t tell where I am in it because I can\’t read page numbers and can\’t decipher the text. This is different, too, because it is a national treasure.\”
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