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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 28th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

1 Million Public Domain Books Added To Google Books

Google Books is an extensive books and magazines search engine that is maintained by Google. Users can search for books online, browse them on the website if the publishers or authors have given permission, look at references or buy or borrow it. The service became more interesting to a lot of readers thanks to the [...]

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Categories: Google

Self-publish for free with Lulu

If you think you’ve got what it takes, why not write a book? Oh yeah, it’s takes a load of time, a huge load of marketing effort, and even more money to get enough published to start selling. It’s also risky, since you could be throwing money out the window if people don’t buy your [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Apr 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Catalogue your DVDs, games and book

Often you will be certain that you have a DVD but cannot remember where you placed it or if you lent it someone. The best way to keep track of your possessions is to catalogue them, allowing you to remind yourself of where they are, but also letting you quickly value them.
It may seem like [...]

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Categories: Linux, Mac, Tools, Windows, software

  • Author: Cheryl
  • Published: Mar 13th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

How to Find the Best Deals on Textbooks

Most of you will agree with me when I say that education (especially in university) is expensive. After tuition and living costs, the next highest expense on the list will no doubt be textbooks. College textbooks prescribed by the university change on an almost yearly basis and most students have no choice but to cough [...]

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Categories: Advice, Knowledge, Online Services

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Feb 27th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Wikipedia gets books and gets printed

Last year, the German Wikipedia was printed. Now, many Wikipedias worldwide – including the English Wikipedia – has given people the opportunity to compile a book of Wikipedia articles which can then be professionally printed or exported as a PDF or OpenDocument.
Wikipedia has enabled the ‘Book’ extension to MediaWiki, the content management system it [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 26

Google Books Downloader

Google Books Search provides an interesting way to search for books and magazines that have been scanned by Google. The books and magazines can be viewed online but there is no way to make the contents available offline easily. It is possible to save the whole page to the local computer but that would mean [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Cheryl
  • Published: Sep 26th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Use Worldcat to Search Libraries Worldwide

I never quite understood why most people shy away from going to a library. After all, 9 times out of 10, the information you are looking for is available at your local library. In fact, libraries have an excellent collection, not only of books but also CDs, DVDs, scientific journals, etc.
One common reason people [...]

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Categories: Cool, Knowledge, Online Services

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