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Search. The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.. Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitally photographed some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries. These books were photographed at very high resolution (in some cases at over 200 megabytes per page).

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