Information for students and educators

Integrate the Classics Digital Library with your learning

• Read your set texts using our Classics Digests program: At the beginning of the year, when you receive your set works for class, set up our Classics Digests system to email you a short extract from each text every morning. You'll gradually get through the books you need to read, at your own pace--no more putting off reading your set works until the last minute.
• Collect quotes for essays and papers using the personal quotation library: If you've got an assignment which requires close textual analysis, simply highlight relevant extracts of the text and add them to your personal quotation library. When it comes time to write your paper, you'll have all your selected quotes in one place.
• Search through texts for words relating to a topic: If you have an essay on sea imagery in Shakespeare's The Tempest, for example, conduct a search for 'sea' and you'll automatically be referred to all passages where the word was used. No more scan-reading--just perform a simple search. The software also allows you to search all of a particular author's works, so you can do a search for 'sea' in all of Shakespeare's works to see how sea imagery is handled in his other plays and his poems.

Information for educators

• Stimulate students' interest in classic literature and philosophy: The Classics Digital Library offers a fresh and stimulating way of presenting the classics. With a site license, starting at as little as $80, as many students as you like can have access to the Library across your institution's computer network.
• Encourage wide reading: Rather than confining students to their set texts, the Classics Digital Library allows students to read a variety of sources linked to their area of study. The Library makes it easy to read other texts by the same author, and other texts on the same subject, allowing students to make more sophisticated intertextual studies and giving them a breadth of knowledge not easy to acquire with traditional printed material.
• Use the bookmarks feature and the personal quotation library to collect important passages from a text for discussion in class: Automatically generate printouts of the quotes you've selected and distribute them to your students, or make use of our export feature to help generate overheads or PowerPoint presentations.
• Organise your reading: Our software keeps track of which books you've read, and your progress in each book, making it the perfect companion for both teacher and students readers.

Information for reading enthusiasts

• There are hundreds of classics you've always wanted to read—to buy them all in hard copy would cost a fortune (at, say, $7 each, the approximately 1200 books included on the Classics Digital Library would cost more than $8000). Enjoy them all for less than 3c a piece.
• Get through more books, more comfortably: our specially designed interface makes it more comfortable than ever to read books at your computer. If you want to read them on the run, export them to your PDA or portable device or print them out quickly and easily.
• Organise your reading: Our software keeps track of which books you've read, as well as your progress in individual books themselves, making it the perfect companion for the avid reader.