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What Favorite Childhood Books Made a Difference For You?
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What Favorite Childhood Books Made a Difference For You?

by Meagan Frank

It was Shel Silverstein who did it for me. For my seventh birthday, I received The Light in the AtticĀ and Where the Sidewalk Ends. I might have already been on a crash-course with writing, but those books of silly poetry sealed the deal. I fell in love with rhyme, rhythm, […]

Online Books Page Links Millions of Books
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Online Books Page Links Millions of Books

by Meagan Frank

The Online Books Page is a large directory of more than 1.75 million free online books. Dr. Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner at the University of Pennsylvania, compiled the directory and he is passionate about making books no longer under copyright available to anyone who wants to read them. His current work revolves around getting all libraries to link into the information that is there for the taking.