1-Overview
What This Is?
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freelyreadable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. Major parts of the site include:
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An index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet
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Pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts
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Special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books
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Information on how readers can help support the growth of onlinebooksWhere 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 thereuntil summer 1999, with Web space and computing resources provided bythe School of Computer Science. In 1999, it moved to its present location atPenn.Who is benefit from this website?
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