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You already know that the Internet is one of the most convenient, effective means of researching and finding information for your classes, but did you know that in some cases it can replace all of your hefty textbooks and reading assignments too? With ebooks, you can read, stream, and listen to lessons, classic literature, poetry and reference books on the Internet or your mobile device. Here are 100 useful links for ebook lovers

Readlists is a site that lets you put together bundles of articles, share these articles with others and also download the bundle as an ebook.

An eight minute demo of what this product can do is included.

"iBooks Author is a great tool for creating interactive ebooks. Unfortunately, creating content with iBooks Author isn't always as easy as you might hope it is. Back in June I shared a free 110 page book about using iBooks Author . However, if video tutorials are more helpful to you I have found twenty six videos that you should look at."

Animate drawings,create music, build ages, craft ebooks. Browser-based programming designed to teach computational thinking.  Use for science, maths etc.  Lesson plans available.

How the reading experience differs between paper and screen.

McLuhan predicted we'd have to leave the bookworld behind to be "with it" in the electronic world but with social media we can do it all. Learn about an evolving virtual book club model, online or inworld, that culminates with the screening of collaboratively produced bookcasts, multimedia aesthetic responses to books.

An extremely interesting book looking at the global effects of gaming; much of it is based in fact.

It is an interesting programme which is trying to investigate how children actually use digital books.