Comments on: Volunteers, free e-books – a phenomenon http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/volunteers-free-e-books-a-phenomenon/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bob Martinengo http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/volunteers-free-e-books-a-phenomenon/comment-page-1/#comment-984511 Bob Martinengo Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:11:12 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=14416#comment-984511 You might add Bookshare.org to this list. They have over 30,000 ebooks, many of which were scanned, OCRed, and proofed by volunteers - many of whom are visually-impaired. They also have several thousand ebooks donated by the publishers themselves. Sadly, these books are not available to the general public due to Section 121 of copyright law. For more information, see www.bookshare.org You might add Bookshare.org to this list. They have over 30,000 ebooks, many of which were scanned, OCRed, and proofed by volunteers – many of whom are visually-impaired. They also have several thousand ebooks donated by the publishers themselves.

Sadly, these books are not available to the general public due to Section 121 of copyright law. For more information, see http://www.bookshare.org

]]> By: Christine http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/volunteers-free-e-books-a-phenomenon/comment-page-1/#comment-983579 Christine Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:32:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=14416#comment-983579 It is pretty amazing. I got my Cybook knowing I could be happy reading just Project Gutenberg books for years to come. Some of these sites put them into portable formats for us, making them extremely convenient. And there are current authors making their work available for free too. I'm glad to have all of them! Thanks for this post. It is pretty amazing. I got my Cybook knowing I could be happy reading just Project Gutenberg books for years to come. Some of these sites put them into portable formats for us, making them extremely convenient.

And there are current authors making their work available for free too.

I’m glad to have all of them!
Thanks for this post.

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