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Wikibooks Take on Textbooks

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Wikibooks, sister project to Wikipedia - the online encyclopedia that can be accessed and edited by anyone, has been introduced. Previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks, Wikibooks is a collection of free textbooks, manuals, and other texts, with supporting book-based texts, that is written collaboratively on the website. It works on the same principal as Wikipedia, meaning that anyone can edit any book module by clicking on an "edit this page" link, which appears in every Wikibooks module.

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