Wednesday, February 17, 2010

eBook information



The rising popularity of the eBook has led to increasing difficulty to find library resources that are genuine and useful with little or no cost. Here is an essential list of online library resources:

Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Project Gutenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
Scribd http://scribd.com/
Google Books http://books.google.com/books
Wikibooks – free educational books http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Many Books http://manybooks.net/


This list is sourced from Kathryn Greenhill Special Services Librarian, Cottesloe-Peppermint Grove-Mosman Park Library. Kathryn will be facilitating this year's Libraries 2.0 Conference. For more on indightful Library 2.0 resrouces, news and opinion please visit her blog: http://librariansmatter.com/blog