Ironically, it's some of the oldest texts that are most accessible digitally.

My dad is a scholar of Christian history, and the only way he can get a lot of what he likes to read - out-of-print texts, in German and English, many from the 19th century and earlier - is via Google Books, which he then downloads to his Sony reader.

I just caught a headline that the Dead Sea Scrolls were going to be digitized, but I didn't notice in what format.