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Dec 15, 2025 · Over 700,000 digitised books from our collection are available on Google books. Find out more in our guide. Some of our audio collections can be accessed onsite in St …

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Nov 3, 2025 · The British Library holds more than 170 million items, including over 13 million printed and electronic books as well as hundreds of thousands of periodicals, microfilms, and …

Its collections include more than 150 million items, in over 400 languages including books, magazines, manuscripts, maps, music scores, newspapers, patents, databases, philatelic …

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The British Library is a major research library, with items in many languages [8] and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound …