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Margaret K. A study published in the journal PNAS found that reading an e-book before bedtime decreased the production of melatonin, a hormone that preps the body for sleep. E-books also impaired alertness the following day. Individuals with poor eyesight or reading disorders like dyslexia can benefit more from e-books because they provide a range of options for changing the text size and spacing of lines.

A study in the journal PLOS One observed reading comprehension and speed in high school students with dyslexia. The study found that people with dyslexia read more effectively, and with greater ease, when using the e-reader compared with reading on paper.

Schneps, who was the lead author on the paper, said, "What made the difference was the ability of the device to display lines of text that were extremely short about two or three words per line , as well as its ability to space out the text.

An early collection of books from the Indian scanning centers of the Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project. Many of these books are not complete or in good shape. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live.

Topics: historic medical books, history of medicine. This collection contains digital versions of United States Government documents as well as other government documents. Question or comment about digitized items from the Library of Congress that are presented on this website? Please use the Library of Congress Ask a Librarian form. It is the main research arm of the U. Congress and the home of the U. Copyright Office.

Topics: Argentina, Journals, Gazette. A collection of scholarly literature created by experts and professionals in their fields. Included are theses, books, abstracts and articles. Topics: academic, scientific, white papers, scholar, scholarly, peer review, jstor, arxiv, thesis, The Federal Library and Information Network FEDLINK is an organization of federal agencies working together to achieve optimum use of the resources and facilities of federal libraries and information centers by promoting common services, coordinating and sharing available resources, and providing continuing professional education for federal library and information staff.

Books from the Boston Library Consortium. Take a picture, it will last longer As books become old and begin to fall apart, librarians depend on microform to preserve their content for the future. Tiny photographs on long strips of film microfilm or small cards of film microfiche are all that remain of hundreds of thousands of documents that have disintegrated over the last century. While microfilm is perfect for storing and protecting this material, it is a does not allow for much access.

In following its mission to provide Books from the Allen County Public Library. Soundex Index for the Census. The UK Medical Heritage Library brings together books and pamphlets from 10 research libraries in the UK, focused on the 19th and early 20th century history of medicine and related disciplines.

UK Medical Heritage Library partners With the re-branding of computing power and machines as something welcome in the home and not just the workshop, a number of factors moved forth to sell these machines and their software to a growing and large group of customers. Besides the introduction of more elegant cases and an increased presence by larger and larger firms, a strong argument can be made that one of the forces was the proliferation of computer-related magazines and newsletters that gave a central, printed home for writing If you are someone who is uploading a lot of items to the Internet Archive that are in the open source collections and believe they should be sorted into other collections, please contact Jason Scott at stacks textfiles.

The collections here include a range of East Asian newspapers, journals, and magazines published in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese languages from The originals of these books are in the Cornell University Library. The majority were digitized in with funding by Microsoft Corporation. Other digitizing projects followed, adding to this collection. One such project included books and journals in the life sciences and natural history for the purposes of being added to the Biodiversity Heritage Library or DTIC's Suite of Services is available to DoD personnel, defense contractors, federal government personnel and contractors and selected academic institutions.

The general public can access unclassified, unlimited information, including many full-text downloadable documents, through the public Web site, DTIC Online. DTIC's collections Books contributed by Getty Research Institute. The Research Library at the Getty Research Institute focuses on the history of art, architecture, and archaeology with relevant materials in the humanities and social sciences. The range of the collections begins with prehistory and extends to contemporary art.

Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature from to the present. ERIC's mission is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable Internet-based bibliographic This is an experimental collection of music that is not yet available for public release. Topics: cd, compact disc. Founded in by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada.

The main campus covers 50 city blocks with over 90 buildings directly across the North Saskatchewan River from downtown Edmonton. The University of Alberta library system received a tremendous boost with This collection contains global Edicts of Government , such as building, fire, electrical, and plumbing codes. The documents contain the legislative or executive declaration and the model codes that are thereby incorporated by reference.

In order to promote public education and public safety, equal justice for all, a better informed citizenry, the rule of law, world trade and world peace, these legal document are hereby made available on a noncommercial basis, as it is the right of all humans Topic: public. The Wellcome Library is one of the greatest specialist collections on the history of medicine and the medical humanities.

It houses over 2. The Library is making as many of its collections as possible freely available online. In addition to this selection of historical books and journals, increasing amounts of digitised material, including manuscripts and As a member of the Open Content Alliance, the library of the University of Illinois is contributing digital content to the Internet Archive in several areas: Illinois history, culture and natural resources; U. The Illinois Library is also a contributing member of the Biodiversity Heritage Project Gutenberg began in by Michael Hart as a community project to make plain text versions of books available freely to all.

This collection contains a mirror of publications from the Gazette of India. The collection is maintained by Public Resource and is not affiliated with nor does it represent an official source of such documents and is provided as a public service to make the Official Journals of the Republic of India more widely available. The Official Source of Gazette of India publications is located at egazette.

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Let your sexy imagination and dirty fantasies run wild as you read this book for wet girls and boys ;. It has one million download already done. One of the biggest drawbacks of e-books is its screen luminance. And if you prefer the convenience, ease, and unlimited options you have while using your Kindle, then you can save up on a ton of shelf space and never have to buy another book again.

On Paper or On Screen? Educomics February 18, Sustainability I love the smell of books: the ink, the paper, oh that wonderful smell of paper! E-books help the visually impaired Children with dyslexia are often turned off by the idea of reading.

I told you books were magic! Traditional Books Help with Eye Strain One of the biggest drawbacks of e-books is its screen luminance. Share on facebook Facebook. Share on twitter Twitter. Share on linkedin LinkedIn.