British Classics on the iPad App (Free… For Now)

We told you this was com­ing, and now it’s here. The British Library has start­ed to release 60,000+ texts from the 19th cen­tu­ry in dig­i­tal for­mat. And they’re get­ting rolled out with the release of a new iPad app. (If you have any prob­lems down­load­ing the app, try doing it direct­ly from the app store on your iPad.)

The upside: The new app cur­rent­ly fea­tures 1,000 works, includ­ing Mary Shel­ley’s Franken­stein, Charles Dick­ens’ Oliv­er Twist and oth­er British clas­sics. The col­lec­tion gives you scans of the orig­i­nal edi­tions. So you can read the works as they orig­i­nal­ly appeared.

The down­side: The app won’t be free for long. Even­tu­al­ly, you’ll have to pay. So get in while you can, or just skim through our col­lec­tion of Free eBooks and Audio Books. All clas­sics, all the time…

via BBC

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