Booksnake
iOS app by Sean Fraga. Education · Sean Fraga
- Store rating
- 0 / 5
- Store rating count
- 0
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 1.1.5
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-13
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Booksnake brings digitized cultural heritage materials out of online archives and into the real world. Point your iPhone or iPad at any flat surface, tap to place an item, and explore it at life size in your physical space — as if the original were really there in the room with you. AIM. TAP. EXPLORE. Booksnake is a tool for close looking — the careful, attentive examination of primary sources that is central to historical and archival research. Instead of squinting at a thumbnail on a screen, you can lean in to read fine handwriting, step back to take in a panoramic map, or walk around an item to examine it from every angle. As you move, Booksnake keeps the virtual item anchored down, exactly where you want it. 3.6 MILLION ITEMS FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Booksnake offers access to more than 3.6 million digitized items held by the Library of Congress, including historical maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers, sheet music, and more. Search online catalogs, browse results, and add items directly to your personal research library — all from within the app. Items are rendered at life size, calculated from their actual physical dimensions. Booksnake is built on IIIF (the International Image Interoperability Framework), the open standard used by leading galleries, libraries, archives, and museums worldwide to share digitized collections. Support for additional collections is in development. TURN THE PAGES For books, newspapers, manuscripts, and other paginated materials, Booksnake assembles each page into a virtual object you can leaf through page by page. Spread out a historical newspaper on your kitchen counter. Turn the leaves of an illuminated manuscript. Examine a ship's log entry by entry. Interacting with paginated materials in Booksnake is fluid and intuitive. CREATE AND SHARE LISTS Collect items from across the archive into Lists — curated selections you can title, describe, and share with students, colleagues, or collaborators. Use a List to guide a seminar through a set of primary sources, direct visitors to an exhibition's key objects, or share the materials behind a research project or public talk. PRESENT WITH AIRPLAY Mirror Booksnake to a TV or projector via AirPlay, or share your screen during a video call. Booksnake functions as a document camera for virtual documents: lead a class through an archival map, bring a manuscript into a lecture, or offer a conference audience a close look at an item that would otherwise require a trip to a special collections reading room. FOR RESEARCHERS, EDUCATORS, AND CURIOUS EXPLORERS Booksnake is a digital humanities project developed at the University of Southern California with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is designed for historians, librarians, archivists, museum educators, digital humanists, and anyone who wants a more immediate encounter with digitized primary sources. An introduction to the project appears in Digital Humanities Quarterly (vol. 19, no. 1, Wi
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