Smithsonian Libraries -- Books Online.

[eppur_se_muova]

A great place to d/l classics. I was searching for Lavoisier's Traité élémentaire de chimie when I found this:

http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/heraldsofscience/Heralds_books.cfm?category=chemistry

https://library.si.edu/books-online

[annabanana]

1. Great site.. thanks! . . .. .

[left-of-center2012]

2. What are "d/l classics" ? n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

4. SRSLY ? d/l download

Sorry if you haven't seen that before.

[left-of-center2012]

5. Sorry - that didn't explain it to me ??????

SRSLY

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Go to the link and search for a book ... then ...

say you've found a book, like this one : https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/fossilcetaceaofc00mche

Click on the image of any book and it should open in an Internet book reader.

At the top of the reader is a download icon (downward-pointing arrow) click on it to download the book.

Not all books are downloadable, and the search function seems to be a little obscure at times, but there's a lot to be found just be browsing the subject categories.

[left-of-center2012]

7. So, the answer is ...

d/l = down loadable

geeze, that wasn't really all that difficult

[northoftheborder]

3. Thanks for this wonderful source.....

....In just a few minutes I found a book of old Japanese art graphics which are very inspirational in the craft I do.......

[pscot]

8. Aladdin's cave, that is

There are links to foreign collections as well.