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Online Computer Books
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Book Yards
The mission statement for BookYards is the following: To provide the same information and content that one can receive at any large public library, and to provide it through the world wide web. The need for such a site can be explained by studying a recent Smithsonian Institute Study that discovered that while a 14 year old American teenager had a vocabulary of 25,000 + words in his language in 1940, the same American teenager would have a vocabulary base of only 10,000 words today.
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Many Books
Many Books collection are from the November, 2003 Project Gutenberg DVD, which contains the entire Project Gutenberg archives except for the Human Genome Project and audio eBooks, and the Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks. As of July 2004 most current Project Gutenberg texts are available here, usually within the week of release. There are also public domain and creative commons works from many other sources.Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you’ll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 27,736 eBooks available here and they’re all free!
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GetFreeEBooks
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Project Gutenberg
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