Again: They provide the full scans! You will experience the original charm, even though you will probably read them on some screen. I have already figured out some really beautiful ones I shall read in the near future:

• Edgar Allan Poe: “The poetical works of Edgar Allen Poe” with so wonderful, really, wonderful drawings … enhancing Poe’s gloomy stories in a way that I have never experienced from any concurrent printing
• “Familiar Lecture on Botany”: Also of minor scientific interest (taxonomy has been completely shook up since genetic analysis took over), it is still of great aesthetic value to me. Another nice example: “British Zoology”
• “An essay on archery”: I really don’t know where to find such a in-depth monograph on such a topic. If it wasn’t digitized, I wonder when this knowledge would have been lost
• “The Travels and Researches of Baron Humboldt”: Alexander von Humboldt was a great German explorer. He was the first to explore and describe South America (and Venezuela in particular) not from the master-and-slave, but from the human view. The people of Venezuela are still thankful for his work. Here, however, is some of his important work, again, with breathtaking drawings
• etc.

Apart from the personal joy one might experience when being offered such a huge library, the sheer fact that this knowledge is now available for each and everybody is, to me, another real revolution.

Again: I am thrilled …