Rare Book Room

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Quite simply a site to send a shiver down your spine. You are not just able to read these books: you are viewing scanned copies of what may be first editions of some of the most significant works of Western culture. They have reproduced all the pages, you can see the original titlepages and... more

Reviewed by Anndaluz Jul 12 2007, 08:38pm ( 148 reviews ) • rarebookroom.org

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Rated by PaleApple on Nov 11, 1:42am

cool old books
Reviewed by ruiraiox on Nov 07, 1:38pm

site muito educacional.
Rated by PipHunn on Nov 06, 2:16pm

Whoah. Better than owning rare books yourself - who wants all the effort of keeping them? Massive files make a dedicated viewer happy.
Rated by divotfeller on Oct 24, 4:22am

Rare Book Room, my kinda fun.
Rated by joshhillis on Oct 12, 10:03pm

Read you some Galileo! Dude, get learned! From the page: The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world. Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitally photographed some of the world â�,��,,�s great books from some of the greatest libraries. These books were photographed at very high resolution (in some cases at over 200 megabytes per page). This site contains all of the books (about 400) that have been digitized to date. These range over a wide variety of topics and rarity. The books are presented so that the viewer can examine all the pages in medium to medium-high resolution.
Rated by elenavy on Oct 04, 10:07am

a unique chance to get in touch with great art of old masters! thank you!
Rated by beauxeaux on Oct 01, 4:51pm

This is about as close as any of us can even dream of getting to these treasures!
Rated by annajyu on Sep 28, 11:27pm

fascinating

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