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Christina Warren at Mashable has compiled a list of 10 Must-Read eBooks for Social Media Lovers. Each list entry includes a brief synopsis, cover art, and format details. The World According to Twitter by David Pogue looks interesting.

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A US site that could be very useful for promoting reading and showing creative examples of ways students can respond to texts. Basically, 60 second recap is a site that makes films that summarise texts such as Animal Farm, Jane Eyre, Of Mice and Men, Hamlet and Pride and Prejudice.

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A list of interesting opening sentences from sci-fi books

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"I write, I read, and I teach writing. My blog is about all three. If I review books, it's from the perspective of a writer. My comments on teaching writing are all my own, garnered from being in the classroom, at the potential seam of gold!

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Collect, Share as well as self-publish magazines. Unlimited uploads, publish online as well as mailed publications and subscription management.

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Demos publishes a wide variety of pamphlets, reports, collections and papers. Everything we publish can be downloaded for free. You can find out about buying printed copies, subscriptions and copyright here .

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(Random) House of Legends is a site devoted to the best fantasy and science fiction out there for young readers today

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Smart, fun, plain-spoken study guides and teacher resources. Digital textbooks prepared by Ph.D. and Masters students from Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley

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100 Best First Lines of Novels As chosen by the editors of American Book Review

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100 Best First Lines of Novels As chosen by the editors of American Book Review (in Tabular format)

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This is a free site that lets you create and publish your own books online. You can upload, e-publish and share your work as well as have it read, reviewed and critiqued.

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The Mathematical Fiction Homepage is my attempt to collect information about all significant references to mathematics in fiction

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Starting today, you'll be able to download these and over one million public domain books from Google Books in an additional format. We're excited to now offer downloads in EPUB format, a free and open industry standard for electronic books. It's supported by a wide variety of applications, so once you download a book, you'll be able to read it on any device or through any reading application that supports the format. That means that people will be able to access public domain works that we've digitized from libraries around the world in more ways, including some that haven't even been built or imagined yet.

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Sony is trying to fight this advantage by being more open and thereby attracting other large players into its sphere of influence. It’s biggest ally in this fight is Google, whose M.O. is to attack closed industries with open technologies. Today, Google is making available more than one million public domain books in the open ePub format, which also happens to be the linchpin of Sony’s open strategy. Yesterday, at the unveiling of Sony’s latest electronic book reader at the New York Public Library, the head of its ebook division, Steve Haber, emphasized: “”You want a ubiquitous experience: open, open open.” He repeated the mantra in the way that Steve Ballmer says, “Developers, developers, developers,” except he said it a little softer since he was in a library. As I’ve mentioned, the key to its open strategy is Sony’s commitment to adopt the ePub format, which is an open format for electronic books.

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