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The description above may come as a surprise to people who never sampled the wares of this fantastic resource.  But the description, made by someone named Samir Huseyn on Twitter earlier today, is a fitting one.  It was likely nowhere near as extensive as the library of Alexandria, but the last time I visited, it had thousands of pages and likely almost 100k objects in its catalog (according to the story below it was over 400k).  But for the global patrons it served its most attractive quality was that it served them all up for free.

Rice U. unveils free, digital offering that it says could save students nationwide tens of millions of dollars.

Glenn Fleishman thought Apple's iBooks and textbook announcements this week came off like a rerun of the pronouncements people have been making about technology and education for years.