The British Library: Flip through books online
Microsoft and The British Library have teamed up and created something very cool: You can flip through very old and unique books online, but you do need to be running Windows Vista or Windows XP Service Pack 2. Here is a screenshot of flipping through Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Arundel and a close-up of Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue, which is a manuscript of his compositions in the last seven years of his life, so you can see how he wrote music.
It uses something called Turning The Pages. A description from http://www.bl.uk/ttp2/ttp1.html is:
This preview version of Turning the Pages 2.0™ allows you to ‘virtually’ turn the pages of our most precious books. You can magnify details, read or listen to expert commentary on each page, and store or share your own notes.
Go to http://ttpdownload.bl.uk/ to try it out.
The Adventures of Lorie and Brian Groth 