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Karl Wick is best found here on my Free Textbooks wikibooks talk page.

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+[[wikibooks:User:Karl Wick|Karl Wick]] is best found [http://wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Karl_Wick here] on my [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page Free Textbooks] wikibooks [[wikibooks:User_talk:Karl_Wick|talk]] page.
-Check out this [http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_textbook Organic chemistry textbook] outline currently under development.
-I am currently excited about the idea of building a [[Wiki]] [[textbook]] site where people can develop textbooks collabaratively ( http://textbook.wikipedia.org ). Right now, if you go to [[college]] you may spend (as I did) $500/semester on books that present material that is in the [[public domain]]! Intro to [[chemistry]] has not changed appreciably in decades and my [[organic chemistry|organic chem]] book would be better as a linked-up [[hypertext]] than a [[hard copy]] anyways. Lets let the [[open source]] [[community]] be the first to make this happen. The costs associated with [[education]] further the [[digital divide]], keeping the [[disadvantaged]] where they are. Dont expect the textbook [[business|companies]] to jump on this tho cuz obviously [[free]] [[online]] textbooks will take away their [[money|livelihood]] .. but if we have the [[knowledge]] lets [[share]] it in an approachable way so as many [[people]] can benefit from it.
-Leave me messages at my [[User_talk:Karlwick|talk]] page, or just come help build.
-And oh yeah, I am currently a premed student at the [Cleveland State University].