{"id":1307,"date":"2014-12-10T14:38:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T14:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2014-12-10T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T14:38:42","slug":"turning-old-books-e-books-rare-books-go-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2014\/12\/10\/turning-old-books-e-books-rare-books-go-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning old books into e-books: our rare books go digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1308 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2014\/12\/b21364205.gif\" alt=\"b21364205\" width=\"100\" height=\"152\" \/>The Internet Archive have started to publish high resolution scans of the School&#8217;s 19th century books and pamphlets on <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lshtmlibrary\">their site<\/a>. 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