Book Portal

↓ Public Domain & Free books:

1. Project Gutenberg - pre-1923 public domain texts
   • browse by: Author, Title, newly added, search, Wiki
   • see also: Australia, Black Mask, Many Books, Plucker Books
2. Authorama
3. Bibliomania
4. Books-On-Line
5. Classic Short Stories
6. Distributed Proofreaders: help proof a public domain book
7. English Server - Books
8. Great Books Index
9. Hanover - links
10. Infidels
11. Internet Public Library
12. On-Line Books Page (U. of Penn, non-US)
13. National Academies Press: science, engineering, medicine, energy (read online or pay to download or for dead tree copies)
14. Online-Literature: author index
15. Page by Page Books
16. Poets (famous)
17. Sacred Texts
18. Collections:
    • University of South Carolina: rare books, Medieval books
    • Duke University: Papyrus archive
    • Darwin's notes, private papers, writings, & drawings
19. Scholarly & Educational:
    • WikiBooks: open content text books
    • Connexions: mainly scholarly content
    • Open Textbook
    • Psychology Classics
    • Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
    • Textbook Revolution: all free but with varying restrictions
    • University of California Press, Scholarship Editions
    • Early modern philosophy texts
    • Global Text
20. Tech books:
    • All About Circuits: free online electrical & electronic textbooks
    • Free Tech books
    • Tech Books for Free

↓ Kids:

• Children's literature circa 1850+
• E-books for young readers
• Rosetta Project - illustrated antique children's books
• Tom Swift
• Kids - links

↓ Audio:

• Archive.org
• LibriVox: public domain readings of public domain books by various readers
• Podio Books: serialized free books
• Audible - mostly (all?) non-free
• Audio Books for Free
• Gutenberg - public domain and/or free
• Jorge Luis Borges: lecture snippets
• William Carlos Williams: lectures, interviews, readings

↓ Religion:

• Sacret Texts - timeline
• Alchemy
• Beliefnet
• Buddhist: Dhammapada
• Celtic
• Early Christian writings
• Bible gateway
• Bible versions
• Catholic encyclopedia
• Gospel of Judas
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Eastern philosophy
• Egyptian
• Gnostic library
• god checker
• Hellenic
• Mindfulness
• Jewish Encyclopedia
• Muslim compendium
• Mysticism
• Mythica encyclopedia
• Myths & Legends - links
• New Testament gateway
• Norse
• Northern Faiths
• Religious Tolerance
• The Revealer (religion & the press)
• Sacred Sites
• Taoism
• Zen Buddhist/Hsu Yun
• Authors:
  • U.G. Krishnamurti (alternate site)

↓ Stories:

• Classical Authors Directory
• Classic Authors
• The Edward Society
• Espresso stories - 25 word (2 sentence?) stories
• Fray
• Gaslight
• Gut Cult
• Literary Gothic
• Literature.org
• The Modern Word
• Monkey Bicycle
• Opium Magazine
• Pindeldyboz
• Read Book Online
• Science Fiction:
  • SciFi.com
  • Strange Horizons
• The 2nd Hand
• Three Penny Review

↓ Folklore & Mythology:

• American Folklore
• Analysis and Interpretation of Folk and Fairy Tales
• Celtic:
  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies by Robert Kirk and Andrew Lang
• Demons
• Folklore and Mythology E-Texts
• Folk and Fairytales from around the world
• Folk texts
• Grimm Brothers: Margaret Hunt translations, Fairy Tales, many links
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Icelandic literature - digitised texts
• Jewish fairy tales
• Legends and Sagas
• Red Riding Hood
• Perrault's Fairy Tales (illustrated by Gustave Dore)
• Russian fairy tales: Sunbirds, Artrusse
• SurLaLune Fairy Tales Pages
• Tibetan folk tales
• Fairy tale art
• Misc: Kim Wood, Michael Pope

↓ Miscellaneous:

• Albanian literature
• Alchemy
• American-Buddha - variety of philosophical writings
• Banned books:
  • American Library Association
  • Univ. of Penn.'s list
• Business:
  • What has Government Done to Our Money
  • Process of Forming a Company
• Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
• Blake Archive
• Bukowski
• Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference
• eBookweb
• Federalist Papers
• Ghost Stories
• Healthy Living bookshelf
• Hong Kong's Oxford Text Archive
• Images from old books
• Indexing:
  • The Indexer: on indexing (hall of shame)
  • American Society of Indexers
• Invisible Library
• Kafka: Metamorphosis [requires Flash?]
• Immanuel Kant, Lewis Carroll Society
• Mark Anderson's Lending Library
• Nietzsche
• George Orwell (1984, Library)
• On Plagiarism:
  • The Ecstasy of Influence
  • Something Borrowed
• Psychedelic library
• The Reader's Bill of Rights
• Reading aloud
• Runeberg Project - Nordic literature
• Revolting Librarian
• Russian prose and science fiction
• Shakespeare
• Sherlock Holmes
• Social Network Methods, Introduction
• Squashed philosophers - abridged versions
• Stump the bookseller: forget a title? find the book
• Sun Tzu
• Thoreau
• Time, books about
• Victorian literature
• War is a Racket -- Smedley D. Butler
• Robert Anton Wilson texts
• Zen stories

↓ Ancient, Firsts, & Early texts:

• Books & Printers, 1450-1600
• Cambridge Illuminations
• Scottish Broadsides
• Burning of Library of Alexandria
• Christian Writings, Early
• Earliest dated printed book
• First Movable Type book
• Greek Classics
• History of early printing, 2nd - 14th centuries
• A brief history of printing
• Mark Twain's 1st Atlantic Monthly story
• Medieval:
  • Labyrinth - Georgetown University
  • Le Moyen Age En Lumiere - mostly French, some English translations
  • Medieval Sources - Fordham
• Perseus - ancient texts
• Kurt Stüber Library - historic and classical biology
• Lao Tzu translations, Taoism
• Odd mix of old texts (scans and txt)
• Taoism texts
• University of Adelaide's collection
• Vergil Project
• Vivarium - rare books, photos, and more

↓ PDA & E-book readers:

• LibriVox
• Memoware - books for PDAs
• U of V
• UltraSlack

↓ Compare Prices:

1. AddALL: book search and price comparisons
2. Best Book Buys
3. Book Finder
4. ISBN.nu
5. ABE Books
6. Best Book Deal
7. Cheap Books
8. Prices via cell phone (when bargain hunting):
   • ScoutPal
   • Weber Books' tips

↓ Online Retailers:

1. Public Domain Reprints: get a paperback of any public domain book
2. AddAll
3. Book Pool - mostly computer-related
4. Fiction Wise
5. All Direct
6. Amazon
7. A1 Books
8. Barnes & Noble
9. Book Sense
10. Borders
11. Cherry Valley Books - mostly kids
12. Dover
13. Fat Brain - mostly science
14. King Books
15. 1 Book Street
16. Powells - new & used
17. Small Press Distribution
18. South End Press: alternative press
19. Words Worth

↓ Scholarly & Text books:

• BigWords
• eCampus
• Library of America
• TextBooks
• VarsityBooks
• Past Masters

↓ Self-publish, Small(ish) Printers & PoD:

1. LuLu
   • FAQs: basics, formatting, paperback specs
2. Picaboo
3. Blurb
4. Shared Ink
5. Author House
6. Cafe Press
7. Cistercian Abbey
8. Fultus
9. Haskell
10. iUniverse
11. My Publisher
12. No Media Kings
13. Transient Books - custom bookbinding
14. xLibris
15. Print on Demand (PoD)
    • Book Machine
    • Bookmobile
16. Tips:
    • David St. Lawrence blog
    • Kevin Kelly: How to sell a book on Amazon, Print on Demand
    • Dot gain: how ink spreads on paper
17. Organizing your text:
    • Yale Press submissions

↓ Caring for Books:

• Book repair manual
• Conservation Advice
• Hand Bookbinding gallery
• Musty discussion
• NE Document Conservation Center
• rec.collecting.books FAQ
• Preservation FAQ