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Happy Birthday, John Milton
Best known for Paradise Lost, John Milton was a poet, author, polemicist and civil servant born on December 9, 1608.
The 1860 Collier edition of Paradise Lost includes some beautiful illustrations by Gustave Doré too. Well worth a look!
There are also over 1,000 books about Milton in Open Library, if you’re interested to read critically about him.
Adobe Digital Editions: The Screencast
Hi, Megan here with a new screencast for you! Some of the books available for borrowing from Open Library require Adobe’s Digital Editions program. This screencast will help make sense of installing it on your computer and getting started with it. You’ll also see how you can return books once you’re done with them. Happy borrowing!
Armistice Day
From The Western Front, published in 1917. A series of sketches, drawings and paintings from the ‘Ruined Tower of Becordel-Becourt’ to the ‘The Giant Slotters,’ Mr. Muirhead Bone’s sketches give us a unique eyewitness account of life on the Western Front.
There are over 2,800 books you can read online about World War, 1914-1918.
KohaCon10 & our API
I’ve just returned from a trip to Wellington where I presented about Open Library to the people assembled at KohaCon10. I had a lovely time meeting everyone involved, and was thoroughly impressed by the community that surrounds this 10 year old, successful open source project. A hearty congratulations to everyone involved! At the end of the conference, we were shown a fabulous Gource source code visualization of “10 years in 10 minutes,” which visualizes 10 years of Koha development. Seriously cool.