British Library launches 19th Century iPad app

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 03/08/2011 - 14:05 The British Library has launched an iPad app allowing subscribers to browse 45,000 books from its 19th century historical collection. Subscription costs £1.99 per month and users can explore books from the likes of classic novels to science, travel writing and memoir from the era. Among the titles that can be read are an account of the exhumation of Napoleon's body, the memoir of a battlefield nurse during the American Civil War and an 1884 study of the gypsies of the Scottish Borders. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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