I want to read the Notebooks, but there are 1,565 pages and I have too much else to read.

At a page a day it would take a little over four years, but be manageable.

Fortunately Project Gutenberg (who make freely available online out-of-copyright books) has created a text version of the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. You can download it. It lacks the illustrations of the original, but it's Good Enough.

From 2004 to 2026, this site had RSS feeds so I could read one page a day using my RSS News Reader. I started at page 1 on May 30th, 2004. Today it would be on page 1 (wrapping around).

→ The RSS feeds have been retired. Read today's page: page 1

To see what you're getting yourself into, read page 1 now, or a random page.

Also read the translator's original preface and the Volume I table of contents.