The University of Adelaide. The purpose of this site is: to provide access to the “classic” works of civilisation; Selection of titles is loosely based on what are described as “the Great Books”, but includes all manner of things that took the Editor's fancy. all of our eBooks are available in the ePub format.
Handwritten annotations in books are an important key to understand how historical readers used their books. ABO aims to bring these books together. It is a digital library that reveals the variety of traces that readers left in their books. These examples were previously dispersed over many different libraries in the world. Yet it is also a digital laboratory, where visitors can work together: ABO has tools to enrich the early modern annotations with transcriptions and translations. ABO seeks to encourage collaboration.