Read The British Library Treasures Online
The British Library holds some of the most precious books in the world and you can see some of them online. These include a lot of Britain’s most valuable documents such as the Magna Carta and Shakespeare’s manuscripts to name a few.
But they also have a fantastic “turning the pages” section (which you need Macromedia Shockwave for) where you can use your computer mouse to simulate turning the pages of the books. The books included in this section include Jane Austen’s early work, the first European atlas, Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketchbook, Mozart’s musical diary (which you can have play back to you if you click on a musical score!) and also the original Alice by Lewis Carroll.
Each book has a magnifying feature so you can see the words bigger, a feature where the words are typed if you can’t make out a word and an audio feature where the words are read back to you.
It’s truly remarkable and breathtaking how much work and effort has been put into the British Library website and how much work is constantly being put into bringing these wonderful treasures into the public eye. These books shouldn’t moulder away in a dusty vault. They should be brought out like this, put online and enjoyed by everyone. So enjoy!
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