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More than six months ago now, the folks who run the University of Toronto's highspeed scanner created digital facsimiles of the entire range of REED volumes published to date, and Internet Archive makes all of them available, free of charge, as DjVu documents: http://www.archive.org/details/toronto (search on REED to get list, or browse to find many other Renaissance-related titles). Internet Archive (San Francisco) has many projects, including the Wayback Machine of cached web pages. What I cannot understand is why the REED organization is basically sitting on news that the volumes are so wonderfully available to researchers around the world. This is especially ironic given that the latest post to REED-L today announces the annual update to the music and theater resources links page. Are the online REED volumes there or mentioned anywhere else? No. I am occasionally baffled by strange behavior in academia (I am an independent researcher) but this takes the cake. Al Magary Hall's Chronicle Project