This website has several reasons for being:
- To serve as a catalog of resources for students and teachers looking for free textbooks (one-stop shopping)
- To act as a mirror for files. Mirrors help reduce bandwidth costs and prevent files from disappearing if a website goes out of business.
- To promote the need for and availability of free textbooks.
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Digital Library Foundation: "The DLF documents and promotes strategies for developing sustainable, scaleable, digital collections, and encourages the development of new collections and collection services. These pages provide information about DLF's work in this area under two heads: new online collections and services, and collection strategies and practices."***
International Children's Digital Library: "A public library for the world's children. Read 829 free children's books written in 32 different languages!" The ICDL is a project of the Human- Computer Interaction Laboratory at University of Maryland and was founded with the Internet Archive.***
Textbooks give way to digital curriculum: "The march from textbooks to computerized content began to look a little more inevitable this week as educators in Arizona and Tennessee edged closer to the all-digital curriculum." via eSchool News Wire
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Page by Page Books: "We have hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free! It is an ideal way to expand your horizons, catch up on your reading list, or read books that it seems like everyone else has already read."Technorati Tags: open+content education education+technology etext open+source+textbooks etexbooks digital+libraries ebooks
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