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Free To Read Digital Collection Of 6000 19th and Early 20th Century Children's Books

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Free To Read Digital Collection Of 6000 19th and Early 20th Century Children's Books
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grababargain on 15/04/2018 - 21:36 ufdc.ufl.edu (460 clicks)
Last edited 15/04/2018 - 21:37

From Lifehacker's webpage:
"The University of Florida Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature has a digital archive of 6000 children's books from the 19th and early 20th century, all free to read online. A redditor discovered the treasure and shared it in Reddit's Books community. Fans of history and children's literature will be delighted to click through the pages of titles such as Aesop's Fables, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Grimm's Fairy Tales - and share them with their kids….."
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2018/04/check-out-this-free-di…

Amazing coloured illustrations on many books.

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  • stickymoo on 15/04/2018 - 21:51

    Incredible

  • mr_me450 on 15/04/2018 - 23:24
    +1

    Not a bad deal but it looks like they've just mirrored a selection of the content from sites like Project Gutenberg, which has been around for years. Project Gutenberg has a catalogue of 56,000 books, so a much wider selection overall: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

    • syousef on 16/04/2018 - 09:48
      +1

      Considering some of the scans include Baldwin Library stickers, I would guess this is an original collection. Of course some of the books will also be available via other sources.

      See the sticker bottom right of this page:
      http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00001779/00001/1j

      My guess (and it is purely a guess) is that they digitized the collection of books so they could save space and then decided to also make the collection public.

      Edit: I shouldn't guess when it's easy to just look it up: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/juv

    • McFly on 16/04/2018 - 10:24

      Oops, comment was supposed to be below.

  • cooperdog on 16/04/2018 - 06:53

    Australia has changed a bit, including the view of the 'Natives'
    http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00001779/00001/301j

    • syousef on 16/04/2018 - 09:44

      Read the next page. Much more disparaging of the natives. And that rambling about the rivers…

      Mind you, you can get something of equal quality today if you hit up some random ignorant American (Note the New York publisher) on Facebook and asked them to describe Australia. That is if they didn't start talking about Austria instead, or tell you that Australia is a hoax.

    • McFly on 16/04/2018 - 10:24

      Amazing. The publisher only closed in 2010! And they opened in the 1830's or earlier.
      There are still things that can be learnt from such books.

  • syousef on 16/04/2018 - 09:46

    Is this a deal if always free?

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