[SoaS] [IAEP] Summary of eBooks lists... Thanks to all who contributed.

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Good material to the wiki!!

Gonzalo

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
>
> 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!)
>
>
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> From* Tabitha Roder* (tabitha at tabitha.net.nz)International Childrens
> Digital Library (some other languages also available)
>
> http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
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> From *Avash Mulmi* (avash.mulmi at 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.
>
> http://www.pustakalaya.org
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> From *Abhishek Indoria* (indoria_abhishek at hotmail.com)
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> 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!
>
> http://gigapedia.com .
>
>
> And, here are 3 more sent without comments:
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> From* Edward Cherlin* (echerlin at gmail.com)
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> http://www.librarianchick.com/
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>
> From (forster at ozonline.com.au)
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> http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/227
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> From* Nicholas Doiron* (ndoiron at andrew.cmu.edu) Audio versions of free
> ebooks.
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> http://librivox.org/newcatalog/
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>
> 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:
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> http://about.ck12.org/
>
> **
>
> *Kevin Mark* (kevin.mark at 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.
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>
>
> Check them out and let me know if you find anything you like.
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Caryl OLPC Support Volunteer.
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Gonzalo Odiard
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