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View the Newcastle Collection by Turning The Pages

Turning the Pages is an award-winning interactive programme developed by the British Library which allows users to virtually 'turn' pages, zoom-in on high-quality digitised images and read or listen to explanatory notes and music.

Turning the Pages allows many more pages to be viewed and enjoyed than the one or two pages which can be displayed in a glass case and, most importantly, does not damage the original volume in the process.

Selected pages from twelve texts have been digitised:

• The Avison Workbook,
• The Howdy and the Upgetting
• Gibsone’s Conches
• Gray’s Chorographia
• Albumasar de Magnis
• The Boke named the Royall
• England’s Grievance Discovered
• The Fables of Aesop
• A General History of Quadrupeds
• A History of British Birds in two volumes. Volume 1 Land Birds and volume 2 Water Birds
• Green Grow the Rashes O

These showcase the breadth and depth of the collections held by Newcastle City Libraries which are available for all to enjoy.

Please view the system requirements to make sure your system is compatible.

Turning The Pages System Requirements 

The core technologies behind Turning The Pages are part of Windows Vista, so a Windows Vista PC will be able to run the application without further downloads.

Apple Mac, Linux and other Windows users can still experience Turning The Pages by installing Silverlight for Mac, Silverlight for Linux and Silverlight for Windows.

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Turning The Pages for Microsoft Vista (High specification PC recommended)
Turning The Pages for Apple Mac
Turning The Pages For Linux
Turning The Pages for lower specification PC's

The hardware requirements for Turning The Pages are substantial but are required to give the desired uer experience.

The recommended specification for a PC to run Turning The Pages is Microsofts 'Vista Premium Ready' PC

• 1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 GB of system memory
• Support for DirectX 10 graphics with WDDM driver, 128mb of graphics memory (minimum), Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel.
• 40 GB of hard disk space with 15GB free

Also ensure that you are using the most upto date drivers for your system.

Further requirements

• Broadband connection
• Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP with at least .NET Framework 3.0
• Apple Mac and other OS versions will require Microsoft Silverlight
• PC will require Microsoft Internet Explorer with Windows Media Player 10
• For Firefox users will need at least .NET Framework 3.5

Our Turning The Pages help guide will help you get to grips with the controls.