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Glen: "In 12 years, why not an iPod that can carry all scientific literature ever produced?" Of course, I am borrowing from the recent statement made by Nikesh Arora , Google's VP of European operations at the FT World Communications Conference, where he said "I n 12 years, why not an iPod that can carry any video ever produced? " All video ever produced is huge amount of content, and most probably (I may be mistaken) is much greater than the body of all scientific, technology and medical literature (books, articles, etc) or at least all, say, from the last 40 years. If you accept this premise, then the personal digital libraries/collections that are becoming very common ( Beagrie 2005 , Borgman 2003 , Alvaraz - Cavazos 2005 ) will have transmogrified themselves to becoming a world (or at least a Very Big Personal Library) unto their own. It reminds me a little bit of some of the stories we heard when the Internet was just becoming part of main-stream socie...