The Magic Mirror in the Palace of Books

Discoveries and Oddities from the Digital Library: Interesting and unusual books from public domain sources.

Friday, September 25, 2015

Links of interest

See what kind of ephemeral material is missing from scanned magazines

A Beginner’s Guide to the Renaissance Book

Internet Archive and Hathitrust now in Google BigQuery

Bizarre and vulgar illustrations from illuminated medieval manuscripts

15 Weird and Mysterious Books

Wild Beat: Carl Ruhen and Australia’s Forgotten Pulp Fiction


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"Direct link" is to a PDF (typically from Archive.org) while "main page" will include other formats. When there are different editions I've tried to direct link to the one I consider the best quality. I prefer PDFs because that's closest to reading an actual book and for many of these titles that's a key element. I have not read every book mentioned but they all appear to be worth some attention whether it's from genuine artistic merit or just general kookiness.

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