Ebooks and paperless books now give students access to millions texts. Here are some of the best sites for accessing them quickly, easily and for free!
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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Explore our collection of Google tricks to find new, faster ways to search, read email, manage your time, and more. In 2009 Online Colleges published '100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School" and with all the new products Google has developed a new list of tips has been developed. Topics include: Search Tricks, Google Specifically for Education, Google Plus, Google Docs, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Mobile, Google Chrome Tips and Extensions, Google Books, Google Voice, and Handy Google Services and Apps. Lots of time saving tips! 
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"Google Books is one of the research tools that Google offers, but a lot of students overlook. Google Books can be a good place for students to look for books and look within books that can help them with their research projects."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Have you checked out Google Books as a tool for research? Richard Byrne provides a great overview of how to have your students use this tool. He also provides a slideshow with directions that include screenshots.
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If you are looking for ebooks there are many sites to find them. This post provides information of four locations:
* Open Library has over 3 million ebooks.
* Bookboon specializes in academic and instructional texts.
* Lit2Go has books and poems in audio format.
* Google Book Search allows you to put search for specific text (that Google may have scanned). They have a huge catalogue of books that "you can preview, read for free, borrow and buy through Google."
Links to each site and additional information is available in the post.