eBooks in Education: 10 eBook Resources for High School Students

I want to thank Donna for this great piece about eBooks in educational settings. She addresses this to high school students, but really, it is applicable to all students. For more info about Donna and her work see the link below.

If you’ve ever researched ebooks online, you’ve probably found lots of resources and ebook titles for very young children. Playing on these sites is a good way to teach preschoolers and elementary age children about reading and technology, and it gives them a safe, educational space to experiment with the Internet. But older students can also benefit from ebook resources, as they offer an engaging, convenient opportunity for students to explore reading and catch up on homework assignments. Here are 10 ebook resources for high school students.

1. eBooks.com: This website has a great selection of non-fiction books and guides about economics, architecture, art, current events and computers, providing students with supplemental study materials and books that can help them research future careers and college majors.
2. Scribd.com: This website features open source high school textbooks and resources for chemistry, math and physics.
3. Ebookexplorer.com: Here you’ll find books that teach marketing, financial tips, sports and fitness tips, and more.
4. Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg shares an extensive online book and reading collection with periodicals, fiction, non-fiction books, biographies, plays, travel books, and more.
5. Mobipocket.com: On Mobipocket.com, teens will find fiction books, including classics, young adult books, mystery, science fiction, humor, short stories, poetry, theatre and more. Mobipocket.com also offers dictionaries, medical books, and other elearning resources.
6. eReader.com: Purchase books from Barnes & Noble’s eReader.com, which markets itself as “the world’s largest eBook store.” There is also a free ebook section with classics by authors like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo, Edith Wharton, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more.
7. TextonPhone.com: This resource lets iPhone users download full-text books to their phone via a Facebook app.
8. Amazon.com Kindle Store: If your child or student has a Kindle, you can purchase or find free Kindle fiction, non-fiction, newspapers, magazines and more at Amazon.com’s Kindle Store.
9. E-library.net: This site has a directory of over 11,000 ebooks and can connect you to the original bookseller site.
10. Microsoft Reader: Download Microsoft Reader for free to find over 60,000 ebooks. Microsoft Reader includes a note-taking feature, text search for each ebook, font features, annotation storage, and more.

This post was contributed by Donna Scott, who writes about the online school. She welcomes your feedback at DonnaScott9929 yahoo.com

eBooks About Everything is proud to be a Commercial Sponsor of the 3rd Annual World eBook Fair.

Doesn't seem possible that a year has gone by -- and yet, here it is again -- The World eBook Fair!

This year the theme is "Own Your Own Library".  And with a little time and patience you could, indeed, download a library of books to keep you busy reading for a lifetime!

The Fair keeps growing.  Last year it opened with over 666,000 downloadable, free titles.  This year there are over 1,000,000!

The 2008 Fair showcases contributions by 100-plus eLibraries from around the world.  There are books in every imaginable format and in over 100 languages.

The World eBook Fair is the brain child of Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg. Michael is the Godfather of eBooks.  He started Project Gutenberg in 1971 to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. His idea was really simple -- provide as many free eBooks in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible. Today Project Gutenberg has over 100,000 books available for download as well as Audio Books and digitized sheet music. 

While Michael is he founder of Project Gutenberg, the site has grown because of dedicated volunteers.  Thousands of people have converted text and proofread each file.  And  you are the ultimate beneficiary since you can download them all for free.

The latest addition to the Project Gutenberg site is their Wiki.  Check it out and offer your insights and reviews. Or better yet -- Donate your time and money.

I suppose that when the Fair talks about owning your own library this is NOT what they had in mind:

This amazing picture showed up on Boing Boing last week and was posted by Cory Doctorow.  Evidently when it comes to books, there is no end of creativity in this world!

I love this picture!  To do it full justice you need to go to the site and take a good look.

Go visit Project Gutenberg, download a few classics and spread the word!

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World eBook Fair - 620,000 FREE eBooks

eBooks About Everything is proud to be a commerical sponser of the 2nd Annual World eBook Fair.

The World eBook Fair is the brain child of Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg. Michael was the creator of eBooks and started Project Gutenberg in 1971 to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. His idea was really simple -- provide as many free eBooks in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible. Today Project Gutenberg has over 100,000 books available for download.

The World eBook Fair is a logical extention of Michael's mission.

Last year on July 4 the first World eBook Fair opened with 1/3 of a million free eBooks. Over the next 30 days the fair gave away approximately 1 million eBooks a day! These books were primarily contriubted by the World eBook Library with special contributions by Baen Books and the DPPstore.

This year the list of contributors has grown along with the available titles -- 620,000 free books plus 110,000 commercial ebooks for a total of 730,000 eBooks! Here are some other interesting facts:

• eBooks in over 100 Different Languages!
• 125 collections to choose from
• Created by Contributions from 150+ eLibraries Around the World
• 1,000 eBooks for the One Laptop Per Child Computer as seen on "60 Minutes" just two weeks ago.
• 220,000 eBooks from The Internet Archive, (Open-Access Text Archive) Archive.org,

Go on over to the Fair to select your summer reading!