"Over the last ten years, a company called "Octavo" embarked on digitally photographing some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries." Mmm ... rare old book

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HarperCollins the publisher decides to allow excerpts of selected titles to be browsed online through its website. This will be the first of many, trust me.

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