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In our last class (I think it was last class), Sandy mentioned the Electronic Book Review. This is the search results for "Electronic Literature Collection" on the website. As he mentioned, not all works deal with electronic literature; however, a huge majority of the essays engage in discussions that are highly relevant to the discussions we are having in class. I'll also bookmark a couple of key essays and give a short blurb as to why I think you all might want to check them out.

A review of the first Electronic Literature Collection.

Sustainability factors listed in preparation for the Library of Congress Collections.

Grant given to Oxford and Vatican libraries to start digitizing ancient texts including: scan of original Gutenberg bible, ancient Hebrew texts, and Greek philosophy texts.

Mozilla is jumping into the ring with a mobile OS platform. Still in development, but this is the main page for info about the new platform

"Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2008 Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies."

This is the entry point for the work of Loss Pequeno Glazier, what the text notes as a unique online work in which text is generated every ten seconds. I really needed some kind of visualization of this since description just doesn't quite get me there. Click begin to try it out