Studying Einstein?  Reading Chaucer?  Then be sure to check out the Rare Book Room, an educational site that allows visitors to examine and read many of the world’s great books from authors such as Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Galileo, and Copernicus.

This site currently contains about 400 books that have been digitally photographed at very high resolution (in some cases at over 200 megabytes per page) by a company called “Octavo”. The books cover a variety of topics and rarity, and are presented so that the viewer can examine all pages in medium to medium-high resolution.