Website review: Rare Book Room
omegar discovered this in Books
•86 reviews since Mar 12, 2007
books, literature, rare-books
•rarebookroom.org
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endtimes rated 13 months ago- Fantastic resource for book lovers. From the 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. In particular the site contains: 1. Some of the great books in science, including books by Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, Darwin and others. 2. Most of the Shakespeare Quartos from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the University of Edinburgh Library, and the National Library of Scotland. It also contains the First Folio from the Folger Shakespeare Library. 3. The complete copies of Poor Richard â€s Almanac by Benjaman Franklin. 4. Very rare editions: Gutenberg Bible of 1455 (from the Library of Congress), Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo Siderius Nuncius, the first printing of the Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta."
- Hepburn rated 13 months ago
- Amazing. Full of rare texts that many people (including myself) may not otherwise have the chance to see. This is what the internet should be about! This and boobies.
- PVGJ rated 13 months ago
- This is a wonderful site with high quality scans of rare hard to find books. A real treasure.
- justmoon rated 13 months ago
- Wow, seems like a lot of effort went into this. High-quality scans of rare books.
- Jedencorrell rated 14 months ago
- Save to better explore later...
- Private-intellec rated 14 months ago
- Links to some wonderful old texts with pictures of the actual early or first editions to read.
- Betterbug rated 14 months ago
- WOW. Fantastic use of the internet, just as BumApples says. They could improve the awkward frames of the site somewhat though.
- BumApples rated 14 months ago
- A genuinely fantastic use of the internet.
