Today in brief: Google agrees huge book scanning deal with Italian libraries and Geoff Dyer on comic novels, Philip Roth and being good at sport
The Italian ministry of cultural heritage has agreed to allow Google to scan up to a million books housed in the Italian national libraries of Florence and Rome.
The agreement covers out-of-copyright texts,published before 1866 and including works by the likes of Galileo Galilei.
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