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		<title>Full Books &#8211; Free Online Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a bit of a curious site. Thousands of books and some magazines in text form. I haven&#8217;t checked out all the books but most that I have seen are out of copright. Eg works by Dickens. I&#8217;d hazard a guess that many originated in Project Gutenberg. A quick check on Google returns nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recaptcha &#8211; Stop Spammers and help scan books!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This site combines two concepts. The first is helping to correct poorly scanned in books. Machines can&#8217;t always correctly scan and convert to text images of text. Humans are much better at it. And identifying humans to stop scripts being used say to create free email accounts is often done by using a captcha. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zoomii &#8211; A Virtual Bookshop You can Browse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very clever bit of Flash programming. In fact the whole thing is pretty good. Normally when you look for books online you search rather than browse. It&#8217;s a way of life- Amazon have a couple of million books so how could you possibly browse them? Well Canadian Chris Thiessen has worked out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amaztype &#8211; Visualising Amazon Searches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is really clever. Select one of the Amazon websites (com, uk, Japan or Canada) then a category (books, music or dvd/videos) and a search phrase. I entered portent and you can see the word in the picture. Move your mouse over and click and it expands- I clicked a picture in the lower half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Gutenberg- Oldest Repository of E-Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is probably one of the oldest as it originated back in my 2nd year at school in 1971. Michael Hart was given a lot of free (and very expensive back then) computer time and decided to try and store everything that could be stored electronically (and out of copyright). So the concept pre-dates the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enid Blyton Online Bookshop and Tribute</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enid Blyton was a very popular author whose work attracted a bit of controversy in the 50s and 60s but despite that she is ranked as the 5th most prolific author worldwide- she wrote over 800 books at an average daily speed of 10,000 words. Her work has many fans today and of course she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookcrossing &#8211; Send a Book on its way&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d heard of bookcrossing before but on Sunday actually found the first book I&#8217;d ever seen in a lift in the Brittania Hotel in Nottingham, left by a Dutch visitor. If you&#8217;re interested, it was by Daphne Du Maurier (no not Rebecca!) and I&#8217;ll update the Bookcrossing website later today. Not all books get journalled [...]]]></description>
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