Dear All,

When I wrote about the digitization in Wikisource using DjVu few Indic language community members asked me the following question.

When we are able to store the books in its graphic format say PDF/DjVu format. what is the need to type it? why not let it be as it is, the reader will read it in its graphic format."

This question is very important from Indic wikimedian's perspective. The immediate answer I could give is about the importance of searchable and reusable text.

But when I discussed this topic with Amir Aharoni (a multi language wikimedian, which includes Indic languages also :)). Amir shared with me lot of other important topics about this, which helped me to understand that digitization in Wikisource is more than about searching and reusing.

The result of our discussion turned out to be blog post. Here it is: http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-advantages-of-wikisource/ In this blog post Amir discusses about the Advantages of Digital Texts in Wikisource. Kindly share your comments.

Thanks

Shiju Alex