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
Out-of-copyright texts to be made available online
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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