eebo
Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones will be speaking at the EEBO conference held at Bath Spa University in September--I am thinking of going.
Being able to access EEBO at home has saved me a few journeys to the library, and even time to find the right book, the right page. Most of them have images and are able to enlarge, but printing them out to fit an A4 is a problem. I'd have to first 'save as image', then 'crop' and 'print'. Very occasionally the texts are typed in the Ariel font, which is even better. I am lucky that Hakluyt's Principall Navigations and Thomas More's conversation with the messenger both come in those formats. Try reading More's language, what the heck is he talking about!? Imagine those days when the database did not exist; no wonder it takes decades to complete a doctorate.