In January 2024 the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) opened the doors of its Digital Library, making available to readers and researchers a collection of more than 4,800 digitized works from the RAE, spread across 5,250 volumes. Access via www.rae.es/biblioteca-digital will provide first-hand access to the works of authors such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Rosalía de Castro, Quevedo, Rubén Darío…
The digitization has been carried out thanks to the patronage of the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation.
Through the Digital Library it is possible to access thousands of works, focusing on the details and appreciating the characteristics of each copy. Its viewer, which allows, among other things, various display options—including “book mode”—also features OCR (optical character recognition) technology, which makes it possible to find specific words and letters within the digitized texts.
These are great classics and essential works of great value in the Spanish language and literature. Best of all, you have this enormous library at your fingertips for free.
In addition to Spanish, the RAE Digital Library also has numerous works in English, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Latin, Catalan, Basque, and Galician.