...OK so its not like ebooks save lives, well mabey one might, but what Im saying is ebooks have to be the next best thing, for homeschoolers, to, well, books!

At the moment, as I have a book problem, I have been banned from purchasing books that take up bookshelf space, so I have been instead purchasing ebooks or downloading the free ones, that only take up virtual bookshelf space!!  In fact I can fit so many onto my 1G flashdrive I can't stop grinning!  And you can get ebooks that you can read on your ipod.  I actually don't think I would want to try reading anything on an ipod, but the concept is exciting.

I read an article in Eclectic homeschool online which is how I thought of ebooks when I first heard of them (article here ) I didn't think I would ever even think of reading an ebook let alone purchasing one.

My most favourite places for downloading ebooks are:

Project Gutenburg with thousands of Public domain texts for free.

The Erkstine's 'Living books for the Ears' program, not only are their free audio programmes great, but you can buy excellent packages that include ebooks, dramatisations, colouring in pages, unit studies, how to make stuff etc. etc. etc. from time to time.

Currclick formally Homeschool estore, which sells (and lets you download one selected free ebook a week!) curriculum, unitstudies etc from well known publishers in ebook format.  I have just recently been able to purchased Trail Guide to World Geography by Geography Matters, and the ABC's of Art by Visual Manna for a fraction of the price (plus NO postage and handling!) and not second hand, (although I do love second hand, don't get me wrong), so the money goes to the actual people who write all these great books.

Moral of my rant tonight, none really, just if you haven't tried ebooks, get out there and have a look!  Might not be everyones cup of tea, I definitely don't get the kids to try and read screeds of stuff from a computer screen, in fact 'Lisey has trouble wanting to read anything lately??   But I read to them from stuff I print of, I use curriculum either straight from the computer or print it of, and you can download it as soon as you pay for it (unfortunately a by product of the 'want everything immediately' generation, not a good thing really)