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The sheer volume of historical scholarship can get in the way of our ability to make sense of history. At another session of The Chronicle's Technology Forum, Andrew J. Torget, director of the digital-scholarship laboratory at the University of Richmond, argued that we have already exceeded our limits.
He said that if a person were to read one book a day for the rest of his life, he would not even begin to approach the number of books that Google has already scanned into its database from college libraries. There is just too...