Books Online

This group invites all lenses that offer information about books that are available online, that can be read or downloaded online. Books are still a very important means of communication.

Book Online

There a number of Projects that show books

Books are important witnesses of the development of cultures, and due to the fact that people wrote down what was happening at the time, we know today how earlies societies worked and what their know-how was.

To preserve books was always the aim of scientists and others, this worked more or less well, sometimes valauble libraries gost lost due to incidents like war, persecution, or simply due to the fact that an entire society diesappeared...

Today there are a few projects underwa that want to make books available more widely through the internet. They range from totally open source (Project gutenberg) to maybe more commercially oriented (Google Books).

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featured lens Biography Audio Books

Biography Audio Books (and Autobiography Books too...) are great! I love biographies, and often in biography audio books you can hear the person you learn about in the original voice, telling about his / her life, or a famous speech etc. Biography au...

featured lens Out Of Print Books - We Have Them!

The definition for an 'out-of-print book': This is a book that is no longer being published. There may still be copies out there on the shelves of some book stores, there are copies in private libraries and in specialized shops for rare and antique b...

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