Turning the Pages : the British Library's Online Gallery

I found this webpage through an article in the provincial newspaper, The ChronicleHerald, about the display of William Blake's notebook for his poem, The Tyger. The URL given there was a bit different so I've used the link recommended by the British Library's technical information page. That page explains why you should use this URL and which version (broadband or narrowband) you should try for. As far as I could see, I ended up in the same place no matter which URL I used. I also found that my computer is woefully unready for this type of display. Actually, when it worked, it worked very well.

The Turning the Pages Gallery includes fifteen online manuscripts as of today, as well as links to other Turning the Pages sites. Among the titles shown here are works by Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, and the Flemish Masters, as well as images from the Sforza Hours, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, a Hebrew Prayer Book, and the Qu'ran. There are many other things to explore on this website.

Leafing through the pages of the digitized books is likely easier if your computer is faster than mine. I was able to move through the books fairly well, and use at least one of the added features. There is a magnifying glass which works well (no in-depth zooming though), page-rotation when needed, a text explanation of the work, and audio files which follow the text. For the Qu'ran, there is also a reading of the text of the book.
I hope to do more exploring and reporting on those resources but I do tend to get distracted so be sure to explore on your own.