The images come from the pages of books from the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s and were digitised by Microsoft, who then gifted them back to the British Library. In turn the British Library released them ...

About 8,500 excess books were saved from a collection of 45,000 in Yale-NUS College library, pictured here on May 21, 2025. (Photo: CNA/Syamil Sapari) ...