Austen works included in Google venture
The London Times reports works by Jane Austen will be among those available on-line through Google’s agreement with five major libraries. Among those libraries is Oxford University’s Bodleian.
Each library has reached its own deal with Google. The Bodleian is making available nearly all its uncopyrighted works published in the 19th century, or up to 1.5 million of its eight million titles. It is a vast collection of fictional, art, political, and travel writings, including works by Dickens, Byron and Jane Austen.
December 15th, 2004 at 9:57 am
I’m hoping that somebody finally digitizes Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers. I keep saying I’m going to buy a first edition and type it up for Project Gutenberg, but I never have the spare cash. I’m still kicking myself for not buying it when I saw it at the AGM in Boston.
December 15th, 2004 at 10:37 am
Mags, why not borrow it from a library and scan it in? We have a first edition here.
December 15th, 2004 at 5:21 pm
My scanner is busted!
Also, do you think I’d be able to ILL a first edition? I’d have to scan an out of copyright version.
December 15th, 2004 at 10:25 pm
If it’s in the stacks, they’ll usually lend it. I’ve borrowed things through ILL that are listed by booksellers for several thousand $$ (of course, the library copy is often pretty battered so not necessarily worth so much.)