UI's effort to digitize books surpasses 15,000 volumes

Abraham Lincoln held his own law school, reading classic texts by candlelight.

If he were alive and reading today, he might have access to a laptop with a nice backlit display, and could take advantage of a huge – and free – corpus of books courtesy of the University of Illinois Library.

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