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The Online Books Page
University of Pennsylvania ^
| Jan 15, 2012
| John Mark Ockerbloom
Posted on 01/15/2012 10:04:08 AM PST by urtax$@work
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
The Online Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, He is a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is solely responsible for the content of the site.
The site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, who provide the server, disk space, and network bandwidth for the site. They also employ the editor, and support him in his various digital library activities (of which this is but one).
The online books listed on this page have been authored, placed online, and hosted, by a wide variety of individuals and groups throughout the world (and throughout history!).
(Excerpt) Read more at onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu ...
TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education
KEYWORDS: bibliophile; books; education; godsgravesglyphs; pages
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My FR-contribution to the previous discussion threads about 'free' education & access to self learning.
To: urtax$@work
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posted on
01/15/2012 10:34:57 AM PST
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
To: urtax$@work
Ping for later... My PC is in use, so I can’t get to the BookClub ping list.
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posted on
01/15/2012 10:39:58 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: urtax$@work
Marking this for later read. Thank you!
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posted on
01/15/2012 10:41:16 AM PST
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: urtax$@work
Liberty Fund also hosts a library which is remarkable in its content of writings, speeches and books relating to the history of civilization's struggle against oppression and tyranny, whether by one, a few, or many.
Thanks for posting this location also.
For too long, the minds of youth have been robbed of access to the essential ideas of liberty which enlightened the Founders of America, enabling them to leave for their posterity a form of self-government under their "We, the People's" written Constitution.
After years of being censored from textbooks, removed from library shelves and relegated to rare book stores or dusty stacks in some remote region of a library, technology has contributed to a restoration of those ideas to what Jefferson called "the American mind," if citizens will use their computers to search for them.
To: urtax$@work
The On-Line Books Page was one of my original bookmarks, almost since its inception (my bookmark file goes back that far). Thanks for posting.
To: loveliberty2
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posted on
01/15/2012 11:21:55 AM PST
by
JPJones
(Frodo Lives!)
To: urtax$@work
Project Gutenberg is another e-book organization that has been around for years. It has many public domain texts online.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
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posted on
01/15/2012 11:24:50 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: urtax$@work
My FR-contribution to the previous discussion threads about 'free' education & access to self learning.
Books, multiple formats, free:
Project Gutenberg Ebook Catalog.
Disclaimer: I have no connection except as a user to the Gutenberg project.
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posted on
01/15/2012 11:42:59 AM PST
by
Peet
(Cogito ergo dubito.)
To: urtax$@work
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posted on
01/15/2012 11:46:21 AM PST
by
Bodleian_Girl
(Just sayin'.....)
To: TomGuy
Next time I’ll read the whole thread first - you got there first by a LONG time... ;-)
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posted on
01/15/2012 11:49:30 AM PST
by
Peet
(Cogito ergo dubito.)
To: TomGuy; Peet; urtax$@work
Thx for the Ockerbloom link.
+1 for Gutenberg, great site.
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posted on
01/15/2012 1:26:26 PM PST
by
bksanders
(Taglines - BOGO@www.tagme.com)
To: urtax$@work; 506trooper; aberaussie; Alberta's Child; AQGeiger; arbee4bush; Ax; Brasil; Burn24; ...
FReeper Book Club Ping List ping
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posted on
01/15/2012 4:32:42 PM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: urtax$@work; 506trooper; aberaussie; Alberta's Child; AQGeiger; arbee4bush; Ax; Brasil; Burn24; ...
FReeper Book Club Ping List ping
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posted on
01/15/2012 4:38:03 PM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: Tanniker Smith
Thanks for the ping. Never heard of this website. I would like to add that I read the Steve Jobs biography. I found the book annoying to read because he was such a despicable human being.
To: urtax$@work
Thanks urtax
If I’m not on your Ping list, please sign me up
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posted on
01/15/2012 5:05:51 PM PST
by
Cincinna
( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
To: urtax$@work
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posted on
01/15/2012 5:09:53 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(*Pray for whatever passes for America these days* Amen. ~ ScottinVA)
To: Tanniker Smith
I have a Kindle keyboard, but I use it more for games than reading.
I just finished books 1-4 of the Green Series by Judy Christie. Book 5 comes out shortly. I normally read thrillers and mysteries, but I enjoyed these books even though they are neither.
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posted on
01/16/2012 6:06:00 AM PST
by
mathluv
( Conservative first and foremost, republican second)
To: urtax$@work
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:40:39 AM PST
by
urtax$@work
(The only kind of memorial is a Burning memorial !)
To: mathluv; Travis McGee
I normally read thrillers and mysteries, ...
Have you looked into Free Republic's own
Travis McGee AKA Matthew Bracken?
He's a good read...
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posted on
01/16/2012 7:42:18 AM PST
by
Peet
(Cogito ergo dubito.)
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