[Indigo Ink]

Originally Posted by mjh215

I searched MR and didn't see any links, so figured I'd post this.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/digitalcoll.html
http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html (Their main digital collection site)
It's also worth noting that many other large libraries, including universities, have a growing collection of scanned works available for free download.

-MJ

Thanks for those links.

How I wish all "National Archives" of the world digitize their rare and original documents and put them on the net. Most of them don't charge their visitors (most being poor students!) anything to allow them to look up their documents but imagine how much time, energy, money and fuel we would save if researchers from all over the world could access rare, and not so rare, manuscripts on the net rather than go to these archives. International studetns often have a hard time to get appropriate funding to go and visit these archives.
In fact it is likely to be a win-win. As goverments would be able to cut on the cost of maintenance of the archives if the archives just become depositories and the public face of the archives in only on the internet.