Octavo

Octavo is a computer that specializes in digitizing, in high-resolution, old manuscripts. We are talking about each image, for each page, being over 700 MB, folks. Now, they are bringing these scans to the masses. You can own manuscripts by Robert Hooke, Galileo, and Shakespeare. These are works that normally reside in environmentally controlled vaults. The works themselves are sold as a gigantic PDF files, but it includes metadata so that each image is machine searchable. You can hear an interview with the CEO of Octavo, Czeslaw Grycz, on the Feb. 19 Inside Mac Radio podcast.