Rhondda Powling's List: Books and alternatives

GoodReads is a robust social cataloging site in which members can create lists, write reviews, form groups, create trivia questions about titles, and converse in forums

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BookJetty is a social cataloging app that will let you set up a bookshelf of titles you own or want and then easily search for them in your local library with a click. Amazon and other booklists can be imported for quick startup.

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The Book Cover Archive is a collection of over 1,000 book covers categorized and browsable by designers, authors, titles, art directors, photographers, illustrators, and more. Readers can leave comments on covers and can suggest entries.

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22books will allow you to quickly create book lists of any type. You can make comments on books in your list, and embed your lists in other websites.

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Blippr is a website where you can add short reviews of 160 characters or less of books, movies, music, games, and applications. You can connect your account to many other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook where you can continue your conversations.

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BookSprouts is a website where you can join and create book clubs. Members can vote on which book to read next, have book discussions in forums, post book reviews, and hold meetings.

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Offers free, legal ebooks - good for finding new books/authors to read.

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A blog that offers book recommendations, organized into interesting book lists

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A good site that is all free. Podcasts by children's authors about their books, and other book reviews. Also includes interviews with illustrators, editors, publishers, teachers, librarians and more

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A "how-to" guide for digital storytelling that takes the user through the roles of a producer, writer, director, and editor.

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Wired for Books makes available poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults.

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The site retells (in simple format) Europen fairy tales, from Iceland, Scotland, Finland Brittany and Italy,, done in flash.

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This is a comprehensive search engine for PDF files, search for a book title and find many versions of it.

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A few sites I gathered that offer alternatives to the traditional book

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This has audiobooks, movies and storybooks. "Most of our content is aimed at a mature audience but we still offer many of our children's games, films and stories. This is basically an opinionated literary/film site that tries to be fun and very serious at the same time"

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A well known source for many classic e-books that can be downloaded as webpages or PDFs. You could take a book and use it as a shared reading lesson using projecting onto a screen. You could use Diigo to highlight and identify key ideas, comment, ask questions, etc. Our tablets offer you further tools.

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This site allows you to download to MP3 players, smartphones, iPods, PDAs and Kindles

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You can sign up for an account and make some decisions about what you’d like to read and who you’d like to read it with. You can either choose a book from our public domain collection, or choose a group that’s reading something you like. Then you just jump into the reader.

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"Children's eBooks are not just for Primary schools. They can be used for students with reading difficulties, especially students who are Special Needs and ESL students. In 2010 Children's eBooks will also be launching a competition to write and illustrate an eBook."

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10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports

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