Sorry to get all antiquated bibliophile on your ass, but I just came across the coolest thing on the internet, ever. It’s the British Library’s Turning The Pages series.

Turning the Pages allows visitors to virtually 'turn' the pages of manuscripts in a realistic way, using touch-screen technology and interactive animation. They can zoom in on the high- quality digitised images and read or listen to notes explaining the beauty and significance of each page...

Basically, it is manuscript interactivity on crack. Ninth century Chinese Buddhist sutras, hebrew haggadahs, quar’ans, sixteenth century anatomy books, Leonardo Di Vinci sketches, etc., complete with audio and textual annotations.

Not that this is my sort of thing, but if you’re a fan of children’s books written by nineteenth century pedophiles, they even have the complete original Lewis Carroll illustrated manuscript for Alice In Wonderland with some old British nanny sounding lady reading along for you as you flip the pages. How cool is that?

This is like one giant leap for Man to use the internet for something other than porn, gambling, and flaming “YOU DAMN RED AND BLUE STATER! I’M A BRILLIANT SAINT AND YOU’RE AN EVIL MORONIC FUCKTARD!” Not that I’ve got anything against porn. In fact, some of my best friends are porn.