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Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Hippolytus/The Bacchae (Euripides)
Iliad (Homer)
Odyssey (Homer)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (Budge)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci – Complete (Da Vinci)
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Sir Isaac Newton)

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Steven Schwartz explains why more universities should start publishing ebooks and how they benefit students, claiming “Ebooks, I believe, are the format of the academic future.”

Read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/mar/15/ebooks-academic-future-universities-steven-schwartz

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Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education is a report commissioned by JISC that details the evolution of the ebook, the challenges of ebooks in academic contexts, the potential for ebook and various scenarios for the adoption and implementation of ebooks. Very thorough.

Read more at: http://observatory.jisc.ac.uk/docs/ebooks-in-education.pdf

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A great overview regarding the use of eBooks in the curriculum from the Educause Learning Initiative. This article covers how implementing ebooks works, the downsides, and the implications for teaching and learning.

Read more at:http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-e-books

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