Smithsonian Libraries eBooks

Smithsonian Libraries include many digitized books that are freely available. I’ve particularly enjoyed the Japanese Illustrated Books from the Edo and Meiji Periods. The links to eBooks in this collection will bring a page with the cover of the book and a link to ‘read in full screen’

Which will expand the image into the full screen of your browser window. To start reading, click on the arrow buttons button on the screen or the arrows on your keyboard to turn the page. Note: the Japanese books are read back to front so the ‘<’ arrow moves through the book.

Many of the books will be ‘too big’ to view in the window so use the ‘-‘ to make the pages small enough to fit.