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The BBC is reporting that the first works from the Google Print project have been unveiled and put online. Included in this opening swathe are many 19th Century works of American literature and history.

The works were chosen because they are uncopyrighted works that are unaffected by the legal action that briefly halted Google's digitisation project. The legal challenge comes from the Authors Guild which claims it involves "massive copyright infringement".

The entire text of these works is being put online by the search giant's digitisation project. The text will be searchable and users will be able to save images of pages. Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan which has been involved in developing the project said "Today we welcome the world to our library".

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