Pardon my excitement, but I was just browsing one of the Italian newspapers I read online and this news just made me jump on my couch with joy!
From tomorrow on the most precious and rare books withheld in the collections of museums and libraries across the old continet will be available online at www.europeana.eu !!!!
Can you imagine??? The British library's treasures online ... not having to fly to London??? (well I love London though...)
JOY TO THE WORLD...ALL AROUND THE WORLD.... JOY TO THE FISHES IN THE DEEP BLUE SEE... JOY TO YOU AND ME!
:fireworks_fire: :stars:
I think I just may have found my excuse for never working again....
Thank you Stelli. :-*
No problem! I am glad someone other than me is going to sink into this and might never come out :)
Ooooooh! Shiny!
Arrgh! :hitPC: the connection here is too crappy!
But I know what I'm going to dive into when I'm back home. :)
Thank you Stelli!
WOW! Bonanza!!!
(((I've been half watching Cambridge University Library (copyright library) project to get their rare books on-line. I thought it had stalled. Must go and see again.))))
This is fantastic.
Great link!
(Although the juxtaposition of images of "Albert Einstein," "Le cinéma porno," and "The Gutenberg Bible" made me smile.)
Don't think you should have let on about the Gutenberg Bible, Pieces. The site seems completely overloaded now.
Sorry! What was I thinking? ;)
Where was that previous repository of European "Culture" that was popular when the internet was new and shiny back in the 90s? Technical University of Eindhoven if I remember correctly.
Europena.com Beta version is back and fantastic...
Opsa, there are medical herbs books compiled in Nortern England during the VIII C.E.!!!!!
But if you really want to get your jaws to drop... check out the Virtual Books session of the British Library online at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html#
I have been reading the Da Vinci Arundel Codex (Full Version!!!!!!) or attempting too LOL (crazy medieval guy writing backwards!) for the past 20 minutes!!!!
WOW !
This is fabulous news !
Ummm , are the banned books in the Vatican library available as well ?
Quote from: stellinacadente on May 27, 2009, 04:29:46 AM
But if you really want to get your jaws to drop... check out the Virtual Books session of the British Library online at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html#
That's a really nice xbap application (anorak, ici on parle). Been looking at the Gillray cartoons.
Beagle plays in the sandbox again ;)
I just tried Leonardo, waited for ever, gave up.
Quote from: Bruder Cuzzen on May 28, 2009, 06:04:31 PM
WOW !
This is fabulous news !
Ummm , are the banned books in the Vatican library available as well ?
I am afraid fro those we will have to wait until the Illuminati succeed in their annihilation plot LOL
Oi finks as we cood send sumwun -- bein' a monastery an awl -- as arrrgh reper repreev sample person wot we've sent. They cood then smuggil thee desyred bookes owt wiv thee squidlings.
Quote from: pieces o nine on June 04, 2009, 07:25:01 AM
Oi finks as we cood send sumwun -- bein' a monastery an awl -- as arrrgh reper repreev sample person wot we've sent. They cood then smuggil thee desyred bookes owt wiv thee squidlings.
Arrrggghhh! Ye be roight, Peases! Oi hear wot the Vaticun doan have no Navy, so wot saye we jest gather tergether a small fleet and sail inter their 'arbour an then send a shore party in ter grab all thee bookes?
A right capital idea, chum!
Hex kyooze me!
That be a foine sujestshun, Blue. Let's get thee fleete togevver an go raydin on thee vatty kin fer trezhure buried in them booke vaults.
Nef Yoo kin run hinterfearints in thee gifte shoppe as a destrukshun destrakshun.
Oi shall com along wiv me Flip Video ter film it fer YouTube ;) ;) ;)