A nice scifi book about library scanning (among other things): Rainbows End http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

A nice scifi book about library scanning (among other things): Rainbows End http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End A major portion of the book is dedicated to the destruction of the library's printed materials for digitization purposes.