[Steppes] FW: [Elfsea] Fw: Union Catalog of pre-1600-relevant online books

[Michelle Dodd]

As requested.
 


> From: steverourke at charter.net> To: Loch-Ruadh at lists.ansteorra.org; elfsea at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:57:33 -0600> Subject: [Elfsea] Fw: Union Catalog of pre-1600-relevant online books> > > > > > Greetings to the Known World, from Gregory Blount!> > > > You've probably heard that several groups are busily digitizing lots> > of out of copyright books. I've put together a website that lists> > books from several such efforts, and have marked most of the ones> > relevant to the SCA period. You can browse it by subject, and> > you can search it.> > > > http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/union/> > > > There are currently 160,000 books total, of which 12,500 are> > pre-1600-relevant. I'm currently adding about 20,000 books per> > month.> > > > There's lots of good stuff in there:> > > > * A complete set of Burton's unexpurgated Arabian Nights> > * Various editions of Percy's Reliques> > * Numerous books printed by William Caxton, the first English printer> > * Lots of really bad fiction about the Middle Ages written by> > Victorians> > * A plethora of books arguing that the Norse discovered America> > * And more!> > > > I hope that you find this resource to be useful. Please re-post> > this to kingdom and local mailing lists.> > > > -- Gregory> >