Caledon Library

[laura_seabrook]

I was exploring just now in Second Life and came across the Duchy of Primverness and Lovelac which is in Caledon Primverness.

What I found really interesting was the Caledon Library up there:

You can select an author and then a book, and a link will take you to a facsimile of that book at Open Library. I'm impressed, though I'm not sure I'd want to read a whole book there. At least Project Gutenberg has the text in plain text format (so you can download and read it in whatever format you like).

Still, I have to admire the virtual nature of this. Check out the title page of volume three of The Works of Edgar Allen Poe. Yes, there's a tissue separator between the plate and the title, and you can even turn it!

Comments

[kath-ballantyne.livejournal.com]

I went to have a look at Second Life the other day but I don't think I have the right kind of graphics card and all.

I downloaded the software and ended up crashing the computer 4 times before I gave up

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

It happens. When I tried it for the first time I had the graphics but not the PC up to it (only 133 MHz). However, check out Open Library!

[faffinoodle.livejournal.com]

Is that Robbie Burns in the picture?

I was thinking about Second Life myself, it would work brilliant on my computer ((Intel Core Duo 2.40GHz & NVIDIA GT Force 256MB graphics card)).

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

No, it's Byron!

[sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

I'm "Malasha Oh". almost never on there.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

I used to be on SL a lot lot more than I am now as Elsie Broek. My comic at http://lauraseabrook.comicgenesis.com/d/20080418.html explains why.