Rare Books

The Indian Culture portal hosts a repository of rare books from various national and state libraries under the Ministry of Culture, India. It has a large collection of antiquarian or rarebooks in the form of digital books. The visitors can browse through a large number of vintage and ancient books from national and state libraries to read online. The book search engine in the.Indian Culture portal allows readers to search and look for the oldest books in India in multiple digital formats that are easy to open and read. These rare-books can be found in digital formats such as pdf and flip books which makes the reading experience a delight for the readers. Many of the rare books also have a feature to search through the text.
There are numerous answers to the question, what is a rare book? The traditional definition of a rare book is any book which has an enhanced value because its demand exceeds the supply, usually because of its importance, scarcity, age, condition, physical, and aesthetic properties, association, or subject matter. However, there is no clear-cut definition of what makes a book a rare book. Different libraries and booksellers employ different criteria to define a rarebook. The terms 'rare', 'antiquarian', and 'old' are not clearly defined or indeed distinguished and are used interchangeably to refer to such books.