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Anita Mann

Authorama - Public Domain Books - 4 views

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    Free Public Domain Books
Sunny Jackson

MobileRead Wiki - E-book stores - 1 views

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      is a SCAM! They charge for a link to access free books on a free website not affiliated with them!
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Ann Veronica - Wikisource - 0 views

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    Ann Veronica is a novel by H.G. Wells first published in 1909. The book deals with political issues of the time, concentrating specifically on feminism. It created a sensation when published, due both to the feminist sensibilities of the heroine, and to the similarity of her name to that of Amber Reeve, a woman with whom Wells was rumored to be having an affair.
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Michael S. Hart - Gutenberg - 0 views

  • Michael Stern Hart
  • Hart was best known for his 1971 invention of electronic books, or eBooks
  • He founded Project Gutenberg, which is recognized as one of the earliest and longest-lasting online literary projects
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  • From this beginning, the digitization and distribution of literature was to be Hart's life's work, spanning over 40 years
  • "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
  • his passion for life, and all the things in it, never abated
  • The invention of eBooks was not simply a technological innovation or precursor to the modern information environment. A more correct understanding is that eBooks are an efficient and effective way of unlimited free distribution of literature. Access to eBooks can thus provide opportunity for increased literacy. Literacy, and the ideas contained in literature, creates opportunity.
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Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce - Project Gutenberg - 0 views

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    "Can Such Things Be?" by Ambrose Bierce was on a list the U.S. Department of War gave to the American Library Association, which demanded removal from camp libraries of a number of literary works deemed as "pacifist.
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