The collections of academic libraries are rather research orientated. Sometimes the libraries get digitisation orders on books, which they would not have prioritised in their lists of digitisation or did not believe to be found in their collections in the first place

1. eBooks on Demand
8 old books
unexpectedly
discovered by readers

2. eBooks on Demand
...from the academic library collections

3. eBooks on Demand
...and
ordered as EOD e-books

4. Let’s play Whist
A handbook how to play
Whist – an English
trick-taking card game
widely played in the
18th and 19th centuries
Das Whist-Spiel in allen seinen
Feinheiten und Abänderungen, als:
Whist en cinq, en trois, en deux,
Cayenne, Short-Whist usw..., 1859
Now available online at the Digital
Library of the Saxon State and
University Library Dresden

5. Bikes and bicycles
A product catalogue of BMW motorbikes (in Estonian), 1938
and a list of bicycles and their details (in Estonian), 1938
may refer to someone’s interest in restoration.
Digitised and made available by the National Library of Estonia

6. Telephone directories
There have been several
requests for telephone
directories like this one in
Tallinn (1934)

7. Grapes2wine
Hermann Goethe.
Ampelographisches
Wörterbuch, 1876
A specific edition for
wine experts
Something that a library
would not prioritise in
its list of digitisation,
but happy to do it on
request
PDF e-book made
available by the
University and Regional
Library of Tyrol

8. Where did you study?
An annual report of a school in
Berlin
Zweiter Jahresbericht über die
Luisenstädtische
Gewerbeschule in Berlin, 1867
It takes deep interest and the
requests to get the school
reports digitised...
PDF e-book
made available by the
University and Regional Library
of Tyrol

9. Fiction
Maybe a researcher from the field of
medicine sometimes needs a different
type of approach,
like fiction or drawings 
Der Frauenarzt : Roman, 1910
Ethnologisches
Bilderbuch:
mit erklärendem
Text..., 1887
Digitised on request by the HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin, University Library

10. eBooks on Demand Network
About us
We are a network of libraries across
Europe running the EOD (eBooks on
Demand) web-based service and
digitising public domain books on
users’ request.
See:
• more items available for
digitisation
• items already digitised
• more information about EOD
(English),
(German)
Credits (photos): repositories of EOD libraries, www.wikimedia.org