The World EBook Fair does feel a lot like the World's Fair, a bit of everything, from everywhere and certainly something for everyone. The current goal of the project is to collect 2.5 Million books available online by July 2009.
The project looks at the numbers of Kindle and other Book storage devices, verses the number of cell phones operating worldwide, and wonders how to make books available on your cell phone. Amazing.
Organization by collection is logical, and the collections vary from US Government documents , American, Canadian, British literature, to collections from other countries, and even ancient cultures such as Etana, from the Near Eastern Archives. Music, Science , Law, Medicine, Math, even the ebook archives of my Alma Mater, Penn State.
Students doing research would be well served to check here, especially if they are encountering difficulties in locating information. This resource adds an entirely new dimension to the espression, "So many books, So little time."
Add in audio books, and there is no excuse to ever miss a title...for any reason. You can even get into the act of recording them if you like. What a service these folks are performing.
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