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Cool stuff, I love old books like this. Are there any curated lists of the best most interesting books from various eras, which have been digitized?
by phendrenad2 5y ago
Cool stuff, I love old books like this. Are there any curated lists of the best most interesting books from various eras, which have been digitized?
- tkgally 5y agoI’ve wondered the same thing. My impression is that digitizing efforts have outpaced the creation of curated bibliographies. But the University of Pennsylvania’s Online Books Page is a major contribution: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ The Internet Archive’s Open Library has user-created lists: https://openlibrary.org/lists https://openlibrary.org/lists I’ve created a couple of narrow-interest book lists myself: http://gally.net/jatsi/about/sources.html http://gally.net/jatsi/about/sources.html http://blog.archive.org/2021/07/14/forgotten-novels-of-the-19th-century/ http://blog.archive.org/2021/07/14/forgotten-novels-of-the-1... The Harleian Miscellany is a quirky anthology of documents from the collection mentioned in the article: https://archive.org/details/harleianmiscella01oldy/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/harleianmiscella01oldy/page/n5/m...
- kranner 5y agoNot the same thing but related: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4 https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-w...