Ancient Books In the British Library


	Ancient Books In the British Library

sitegeist

12-29-2007 9:20 PM

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sitegeist says:

This is a wonderful site. You can flip trough the pages of ancient books like the first atlas, Blakes notebook etc. Turning the Pages is incredible. If you love books you have to take a look at it.

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1-1-2008 1:03 PM

syncopath

sounds great. will see how it looks like later... -)

1-5-2008 6:13 AM

sitegeist

They already added a lot of books since it first came online. The European Union is working on a digital library right know. The question is, for how long we people have free access to this services.

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