LitLong: Edinburgh

Explore the amazingly rich and detailed literature of Edinburgh as you wander the streets of the city – either virtually or in real life!

- Wander through 47,000 extracts from more than 550 books, all keyed to more than 1,600 locations in the city.
- Explore extract from classic and contemporary stories, by authors including Irvine Welsh, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Walter Scott.
- Encounter writing you’ve never read before – including rare books by neglected authors.
- Pick your own path through the writing that celebrates the first ever UNESCO World City of Literature.

‘Lit Long: Edinburgh’ shows you extracts of books that set their action around places in Edinburgh. These samples are shown with the title, author and year of the book, and can be read either by choosing books nearest to your current location or by browsing the map.

The ‘Lit Long: Edinburgh’ app is one of the visual, interactive outputs of the Palimpsest project, a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures; the School of Informatics; the University of St Andrews’ SACHI research group; and EDINA datacentre. Find out more at http://litlong.org