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By Paul Biba

Screen shot 2009-09-26 at 10.55.39 AM.pngGary Price, who runs that wonderfully informative site Resource Shelf, send me the following email. Nice to see the Library of Congress stepping up to the times.

Launching today is a new site from the library called Read.gov. I have
an overview post here if you’re interested but that’s really not the
reason I’m writing.

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/09/26/all-sorts-of-features-read-gov-launches-today/

Part of the site is the reason. At the moment they have 29 “classic”
books for teens and kids that can be read in their entirety online.

Move through a book page-by-page (forward or backwards) by simply
clicking on the page you’re currently reading or looking at. The LC
Book Reader also allows you to see facing pages, the option to go
directly to a specific page, zoom (in and out), and the ability to
view the book in “scroll” mode. At the moment books are available in
two categories: Teens and Kids.

Some of the titles available today are: The Raven, A Christmas Carol,
A Wonder-Book for Girls & Boys (Teens) and The Baby’s Own Aesop,
Baseball ABC, Denslow’s Humpty Dumpty, Mother Goose Finger Plays, The
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and The Wonders of a Toy Shop (Kids).

Available at: http://www.read.gov/books/

Hopefully, more titles will be added in the near future.

 
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