Rare 19th century books to go on-line

The British Library is digitising and putting on-line more than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public. The programme focuses on 19th Century books, many of which are unknown as few were reprinted after first editions.  This excellent initiative will help teachers who otherwise can not get access to this literature, and it will also provide a great historical archive for researchers and hobbyists. The first 25 million pages are expected to take two years to complete: At full production approximately 50,000 pages per working day will be scanned; approximately 30 terabytes of storage will be required to accommodate the project’s output.