How do eBooks work? eBooks can be read and stored on an eBook Reader, an electronic device that stores downloaded eBooks. WHSmith searched to find the perfect eBook Reader, and we found Kobo. Kobo's eBook Readers store up to 1,000 books and with optional SD and microSD memory cards, you can increase that to a whopping 30,000 titles to carry with you wherever you go eBooks bought on Kobo can also be read on computers, smartphones and tablets – but eBook Readers are designed just for reading eBooks, so you'll probably find them the most enjoyable device to read eBooks on. They feature technology that make the reading experience pleasurable and easy, including screens that look increasingly like standard book pages. Kobo's eBook Readers are also slim and compact, making them ideal when space and storage of books is an issue.. Who are eBooks suitable for? Anyone with a passion for books. The reading experience is easy and stress-free thanks to technology in eBook Readers that helps you find pages, chapters and excerpts from any eBook stored on your eBook Reader. You can also save your favourite excerpts on your Kobo eBook Reader so you can revisit it again and again. In particular, eBooks are ideal for: book lovers with limited space at home holidaymakers who don't want to take a lot of heavy luggage students people with poor vision - many eBook Readers provide a number of interchangeable font sizes technology enthusiasts What kind of eBook titles can I buy? The Kobo book store has over 2.2 million titles available to buy, including over 1 million classic books to download for free. It's not just novels that are available in eBook form – everything from reference and language, hobbies and sport to technical manuals and travel. Imagine - you head off on holiday and need a great guide to New York... reach for your eBook Reader and flip to restaurants, sightseeing or shopping at the touch of a button. eBooks make flipping through a book quick and easy. Where can I buy eBooks? You can search and find titles on WHSmith.co.uk. We have partnered with eBook specialists Kobo who offer more than 2.2 million titles to choose from. Kobo eBooks can be read on most open platform eReading devices – that's most eReaders other than the Amazon Kindle, as well as smartphones, tablets and computers. Our Story Welcome to I See Me! where we provide the highest quality, most personalized children's books available. We opened for business in May of 2000, after a year of active product development. My husband Allan and I received a personalized book as a gift for our first son in 1998. While we loved the fact that it was personalized, we thought that the illustrations could have been much better and the story more customized to the child. Thus I See Me! was born. Allan, who is a graphic designer, and I developed the first book My Very Own Name as a team. Our goal was to produce an educational book that would teach young children how to recognize letters and spell their names. After I developed the concept and wrote the book, we brainstormed together to develop the characters in the book. Allan found and hired the illustrator, and designed the book, while I wrote the business plan. We are pleased to say our books have become popular among celebrities including Courteney Cox, Brooke Shields and Jessica Alba. Our mission is to increase self esteem in children through personalized books that celebrate the uniqueness of each child. The goal of our books is to show each child how absolutely unique and special he or she is, to teach the child how to spell his or her name, and to build vocabulary skills. We hope that you enjoy the books! Who's Responsible, and Who Supports It The Online Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, He is a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is solely responsible for the content of the site. The site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, who provide the server, disk space, and network bandwidth for the site. They also employ the editor, and support him in his various digital library activities (of which this is but one). The online books listed on this page have been authored, placed online, and hosted, by a wide variety of individuals and groups throughout the world (and throughout history!). Where It Started The Online Books Page originally was founded in 1993 by the current editor, while he was a student at Carnegie Mellon University. He maintained it there until summer 1999, with Web space and computing resources provided by the School of Computer Science. In 1999, it moved to its present location at Penn. What Gets Listed The index of individual titles includes books and definitive collections that meet these criteria, and major serial archives that meet these criteria. The index has two parts: a "curated collection" of books that we've personally reviewed and cataloged. and "extended shelves" of books where cataloging data has been automatically imported and adapted from outside organizations. Books in the curated collection are given preference in many search and browse results, and they also have information pages on this site with stable URLs. In practice, most of what gets included in our curated collection comes directly or indirectly from reader suggestions, either from the extended shelves, or from elsewhere online. Who Else Works With Us The Online Books Page is developed in collaboration with many people and projects. Here are some that haven't yet been mentioned. The books on the extended shelves come primarily from Hathi Trust, which supplies the cataloging information we use in those listings. The editor has also worked with The Universal Library Project at Carnegie Mellon. They currently supply many of the copyright renewal scans that can be used to check the public domain status of a work. The database has also been developed in collaboration with A Celebration of Women Writers, a sister site to this one that is edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom. (Mary and the editor of this site also collaborate on various other projects, such as the development of these young readers). We also have received updates and corrections from countless readers over the Internet, and appreciate them very much! The books themselves are mostly prepared by a variety of projects and individuals. Some of the major suppliers of online books are listed on the archives page. Here's how people can prepare books to go online. If you'd like to get involved, there are lots of ways to do so, and volunteers and associates are always welcome. You may be interested in How It's Funded This site is not funded by subscription fees, or by advertising. All of the information on this site is provided free of charge to all. We do not solicit or run any paid advertising on this site. At this time, there is no budget for The Online Books Page as such. The time to maintain the site is donated by the editor (with the blessing of his employer), and the overhead for keeping the server going is paid for by the Penn Libraries. We do not solicit donations for this site at this time. If you would like to support the programs of the Penn Libraries, our hosts, you can find donation information at the Penn Libraries' Alumni and Friends Portal. Those who would like to fund the production of online books may want to look at this page. Privacy Considerations We log accesses to this site with the standard data provided in World Wide Web requests (which includes, among other things, URLs accessed, time of access, the IP address of the site making the request, the browsing program and machine type (if your browser gives out this information), and the previous URL visited (if your browser gives out this information.) The identity of the user is not recorded. Also, note that because the books we list are mostly on other web sites, and we don't log access to links that leave the site, we do not log what books you actually read online, unless they're stored here at Penn. We may tabulate aggregate user statistics from our logs to better understand usage of our site, and report on its usage to third parties (but only in ways that do not allow specific users to be identified). We may also, in the future, if a user so requests, use that individual's access data to provide customized views of the site, but we do not do so now. We do not give out information about specific accesses or users to third parties, unless required by law to do so. (To date, we never have been so required, to the best of the editor's knowledge.) The editor believes that access data collected at this site would be legally protected by the same patron protections as other library access data, but hasn't checked with a lawyer, or with the Libraries, about this. In any case, he intends to raise any appropriate legal challenges to any attempt to subpoena individual access information. 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However, if you want to redistribute or 'mirror' substantial portions of these listings or pages, or create derivative works or displays based on them (beyond what is clearly allowed by fair use or the inherent public domain status of facts by themselves), you must abide by licenses associated with them, or where no license is given, obtain prior written permission. Write to the editor at the address below to pursue permissions. The editor of this page intends to respect any copyrights of the authors of the books listed by the site. We will not knowingly list a book that is neither online with the copyright holder's permission, nor in the public domain (or otherwise legally available) in the country where the online book is stored. We also attempt to warn people about books that are legal to access in a server's hosting country, but may be illegal to access from the US (where this site is located). 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