Emory offers around 1000 "yellowback" books for free download

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A glimpse of 19th century British life is available online, courtesy of Emory University Libraries’ Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL).</p>

<p>More than 1,200 novels, known as yellowbacks, have been digitized using a cutting-edge robotic digital book scanner purchased from Kirtas Technologies by Emory Libraries in 2008. The Kirtas machine enables the libraries to scan thousands of rare and out-of-copyright books in its research collections.</p>

<p>Yellowbacks were cheap, 19th century British literature sold at railway book stalls, with colorful, sensational covers to attract buyers. While some were well-known books such as “Sense and Sensibility,” many of the yellowbacks were obscure titles by authors unknown today. “They were the equivalent of a popular novel you’d read on a plane today,” says David Faulds, MARBL’s rare book librarian.

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<p>How to access the yellowbacks:</p>

<pre><code>* You’ll need Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• Visit the Emory Libraries home page at web.library.emory.edu.
• In the discoverE search box on the right side of the screen, type the word “yellowbacks” and click the search button.
• At the next screen, under results on the left side of the screen, click “online resources.” You can also narrow by genre, topic and author.
• Click on the title of the yellowback you wish to read.
• Scroll down under details, and at the second blue arrow, click “PDF version.”
• The yellowback will load; note the first page is usually blank. You can then save the novel to your desktop or a flash drive and read it at your leisure.
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