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*[http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in Website].
'''Digital Library of India''' has many interesting books whose titles you can see if you search using words such as Bengal, Calcutta , Madras and Bombay. However to actually view these books The book page images are in the TIFF format. If you can't read the pages you will need to download a plug-in to read the TIFF format ([http://www.alternatiff.com/install-ie Alternatiff] for Windows users and [http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html Plugger] for Linux users) whose details you will also find within the website. Books available include volumes of the ''Calcutta Review'' published later than those available on Google Books, books in the Indian Records Series, Yearbooks etc
This site is not very user friendly and is sometimes unavailable. The quality of the scanned print varies from excellent to poor. Individual books do not have their own URL and it will be necessary to search for the book you require. The great advantage of the site however, is that you can find books which are not available elsewhere.
Book Reader 1 is now the only option. Make sure you can see the bottom of the screen which has the arrows and the page numbers. You will need to see these to be able to turn the pages. If you can’t see these, there are two scrolling devices on the side of the screen, and you will need to scroll the bottom one until you can see the arrows etc. Individual books do not have a search facility. If however you have a page reference (from the index, or elsewhere), you can first click over the existing page number to delete it, type the page number you require, then press ‘enter’ on your computer keyboard. This may not bring you to exactly the page you require, but by looking at the actual page number of the page displayed, (as opposed to the computer page number) you should be able to find the page you require. The first few pages of the book may be blank, you just need to keep going further into the book before you can read a page. (Note that the facility to type in the page number was, until October 2013, apparently only available with the browser Internet Explorer but now extends to other browsers including Google Chrome and Safari)
Mac users who cannot read Tiff TIFF images can read about suitable plug-ins in this [https://web.archive.org/web/20131003100606/http://www.uspto.gov/faq/plugins/tiff.jsp link] from the US Patents Office, now archived, or consult Apple Help.
[http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/tifftips.htm TIFF tips] Library of Virginia has general information about viewing TIFF images. [http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=551&458 Viewing Images] from the UK Government website ScotlandsPeople which contains images in the TIFF format.
==Hathi Trust Digital Library==
