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Fonds de Yellowbacks à l'Emory UniversityL'Emory University offre en téléchargement libre un fonds de 1200 yellowbacks, ces romans populaires britanniques publiés à partir de 1850, où furent publiés les principaux auteurs de sensation novels.http://web.library.emory.edu/yellowbacksA glimpse of 19th century British life is available online, courtesy  of Emory University Libraries’ Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book  Library (MARBL).More than 1,200 novels known as yellowbacks have been digitized using  a cutting-edge robotic digital book scanner purchased from Kirtas  Technologies by Emory Libraries in 2008. The Kirtas machine enables the  Libraries to scan thousands of rare and out-of-copyright books in its  research collections.Yellowbacks were cheap, 19th century British literature sold at  railway book stalls, with colorful, sensational covers to attract  buyers. While some were well-known books such as “Sense and  Sensibility,” many of the yellowbacks were obscure titles by authors  unknown nowadays. “They were the equivalent of a popular novel you’d  read on a plane today,” says David Faulds, MARBL’s rare book librarian.The digitization project allows MARBL to make the collection of rare,  fragile books accessible to a widespread audience. “There are a good  number of yellowbacks where we have the only known copy of the text, so  we’re able to make that available to people around the world,” he says.  “They’re very rare now because they weren’t that sturdily built – they  just disintegrated or were thrown away. It’s an aspect of 19th century  life that’s disappeared today.”The project has taken about six months and is almost finished, says  Kyle Fenton, leader of digitization services and digital curation, whose  team worked to digitize the collection of yellowbacks. Of the 1,235  books digitized, nearly all of the titles are available online and can  be downloaded by readers for free.MARBL has the second largest collection of yellowbacks at an American  university library, behind UCLA. The nickname comes from the yellow  glazed paper of the illustrated covers.The genres and topics include romance, detective fiction, war,  biography, medicine, horse racing, hunting and fishing. “Some of these  books are so rare that they’ve been lost to history,” Faulds says.  “Scholars and casual readers can now discover these works. There may be  aspects of them that are of interest not only to literary researchers  but also social historians looking at Britain or America in the 19th  century or women’s lives in this period – what they were reading, how  they are portrayed or what they wrote.”