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<font class="ecxecxecxecxApple-style-span" color="#2F6AC9" face="Courier"><font class="ecxecxecxecxApple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Tahoma"><p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">Hi All,</p><p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444"><br></p><p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">A few days ago I asked for links to sites with free digital textbooks. Thanks to all who sent links. I thought it would be a good idea to put them all in one place and share them with you all. (I'm sorry the formatting of this page seems to have a mind of its own!)</p><p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444"><br></p><p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444"><br></p><p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">From<b> Tabitha Roder</b> (tabitha@tabitha.net.nz)International Childrens Digital Library (some other languages also available)</p>
<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444"><a href="http://en.childrenslibrary.org/">http://en.childrenslibrary.org/</a></p>
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<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">From <b>Avash Mulmi</b> (avash.mulmi@olenepal.org) in Nepal, but will lots of children's books in English as well. Put "English" in the search box and you will get some in English.</p>
<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#2f6ac9"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://www.pustakalaya.org">http://www.pustakalaya.org</a></span></p>
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<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">From <b>Abhishek Indoria</b> (indoria_abhishek@hotmail.com)</p>
<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">You need to register first (free) for this one. And, you must have a gmail account to use this site. Then, you can login. Please choose gigapedia from the search menu at the upper right corner of the site after you log in, and search for any book you like. Also, please visit the site's categories page to sort through them. It has more than 3 million books!</p>
<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444;min-height:16.0px"><a href="http://gigapedia.com">http://gigapedia.com</a> . </p>
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<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">And, here are 3 more sent without comments:</p>
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<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">From<b> Edward Cherlin</b> (echerlin@gmail.com)</p>
<p style="font:13.0px Courier;color:#2f6ac9"><a href="http://www.librarianchick.com/">http://www.librarianchick.com/</a></p>
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<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">From (forster@ozonline.com.au)</p>
<p style="font:13.0px Courier;color:#2f6ac9"><a href="http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/227">http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/227</a></p>
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<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">From<b> Nicholas Doiron</b> (ndoiron@andrew.cmu.edu) Audio versions of free ebooks.</p>
<p style="font:13.0px Courier;color:#2f6ac9"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/">http://librivox.org/newcatalog/</a></span></p>
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<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">I'll add a link from the California digital textbook project. So far the books are only for high school math and science, but the quality is excellent:</p>
<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444"><a href="http://about.ck12.org/">http://about.ck12.org/</a></p>
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<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444"><b>Kevin Mark</b> (kevin.mark@verizon.net) suggested that there needs to be a site where there is a list of books available with evaluations. Sounds like a great idea for some one to pick up on.</p>
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<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">Check them out and let me know if you find anything you like.</p>
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<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">Cheers!</p>
<p style="font:13.0px Tahoma;color:#444444">Caryl OLPC Support Volunteer.</p><div><br></div></font></font><br> </body>
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