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Wikipedia Available as a Printed Book

The English edition of Wikipedia Encyclopedia contains around 5 million articles and if someone were to print the entire Wikipedia encyclopedia into a book, the size of the printed book would roughly be equivalent to 2000+ volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica ( source ).Wikipedia Available as a Printed Book Rob Matthews, a graphics design student from UK, converted 5000 pages of Wikipedia into a printed book in 2012. He downloaded few hundred featured articles from Wikipedia and bound them together in a physical book that was almost 1’7″ thick. Rob’s website (rob-matthews.com) has been taken over by domain squatters but the pictures of the printed Wikipedia book have survived. If the entire Wikipedia Encyclopedia were available as a physical printed book, it would span 7500 volumes. And someone is just trying to make that happen.   While Rob limited his printed book to the featured articles, Michael Mandiberg’s team has a more ambitious plan. They’re working on making the entire...

Download Free Books for your Amazon Kindle

Amazon’s Kindle store has more than a million books that you can download and read on your Kindle e-book reader. Download Free Books for your Amazon Kindle While most eBooks available on the Amazon Kindle store are paid, here are some simple ways by which you can find and download free Kindle books for your reading pleasure. #1. Sources for Downloading Free Kindle Books Project Gutenberg ,  Open Library ,  Google Books ,  ManyBooks  and  FeedBooks are some popular websites that offer a large collection of classics and public domain (copyright expired) books in standard formats like MOBI that you can easily transfer to your Kindle over USB or Wi-Fi. Google Books are available in  ePUB format  which is incompatible with the Kindle but you can use the free Calibre software to easily convert Google ebooks from  .epub to .mobi , a format that Kindle can understand. Calibre does not however support conversion of DRM protected ePUB files to Kindle format. Also, the  Internet Archive  website ...