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The folks at Google are planning to scan -- and make searchable -- every book in existence: "No one really knows how many books there are. The most volumes listed in any catalogue is thirty-two million, the number in WorldCat, a database of titles from more than twenty-five thousand libraries around the world. Google aims to scan at least that many." Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker, writing about the plan, the copyright issues--and pending lawsuits, and the concept of transformation.