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→ Public Domain & Free books:
↓ Public Domain & Free books:
- Project Gutenberg - pre-1923 public domain texts
- browse by: Author, Title, newly added, search, Wiki
- see also: Australia, Black Mask, Many Books, Plucker Books
- Authorama
- Bibliomania
- Books-On-Line
- Classic Short Stories
- Distributed Proofreaders: help proof a public domain book
- English Server - Books
- Great Books Index
- Hanover - links
- Infidels
- Internet Public Library
- On-Line Books Page (U. of Penn, non-US)
- National Academies Press: science, engineering, medicine, energy (read online or pay to download or for dead tree copies)
- Online-Literature: author index
- Page by Page Books
- Poets (famous)
- Sacred Texts
- Collections:
- University of South Carolina: rare books, Medieval books
- Duke University: Papyrus archive
- Darwin's notes, private papers, writings, & drawings
- 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
- Tech books:
- All About Circuits: free online electrical & electronic textbooks
- Free Tech books
- Tech Books for Free
→ Kids:
↓ Kids:
- Children's literature circa 1850+
- E-books for young readers
- Rosetta Project - illustrated antique children's books
- Tom Swift
- Kids - links
→ Audio:
↓ 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:
↓ 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:
→ Stories:
↓ 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:
- The 2nd Hand
- Three Penny Review
→ Folklore & Mythology:
↓ 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:
↓ Miscellaneous:
- Albanian literature
- Alchemy
- American-Buddha - variety of philosophical writings
- Banned books:
- Business:
- 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:
- 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:
↓ 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:
↓ PDA & E-book readers:
- LibriVox
- Memoware - books for PDAs
- U of V
- UltraSlack
Dead Tree Books
→ Compare Prices:
↓ Compare Prices:
- AddALL: book search and price comparisons
- Best Book Buys
- Book Finder
- ISBN.nu
- ABE Books
- Best Book Deal
- Cheap Books
- Prices via cell phone (when bargain hunting):
→ Online Retailers:
↓ Online Retailers:
- Public Domain Reprints: get a paperback of any public domain book
- AddAll
- Book Pool - mostly computer-related
- Fiction Wise
- All Direct
- Amazon
- A1 Books
- Barnes & Noble
- Book Sense
- Borders
- Cherry Valley Books - mostly kids
- Dover
- Fat Brain - mostly science
- King Books
- 1 Book Street
- Powells - new & used
- Small Press Distribution
- South End Press: alternative press
- Words Worth
→ Scholarly & Text books:
→ Self-publish, Small(ish) Printers, & PoD:
↓ Self-publish, Small(ish) Printers & PoD:
- LuLu
- FAQs: basics, formatting, paperback specs
- Picaboo
- Blurb
- Shared Ink
- Author House
- Cafe Press
- Cistercian Abbey
- Fultus
- Haskell
- iUniverse
- My Publisher
- No Media Kings
- Transient Books - custom bookbinding
- xLibris
- Print on Demand (PoD)
- Tips:
- David St. Lawrence blog
- Kevin Kelly: How to sell a book on Amazon, Print on Demand
- Dot gain: how ink spreads on paper
- Organizing your text:
→ Caring for Books:
Marginalia
A page a day:
Help proof a PD book
About Books:
→ Reviews & Recommendations:
↓ Reviews & Lists:
- Alex Lit - ebooks
- Book Talk: forum
- The Assayer: reviews of free books
- Book TV: author interviews, (US C-SPAN)
- Iconoclastic book list
- Literature Map - find similar authors
- London Review of Books
- New York Review of Books
- Reviews in American History
- Times Literary Supplement
- What should I read next?
- The Rap Sheet: crime fiction reviews
- Words without Borders: international literature magazine
- World of books: Library of Congress annotated surveys of international works
- ALA's list of 100 most frequently challenged and banned books
- Personal bookshelves:
- Library Things: bunch of book nuts, highly recommended ($)
- aNobii
- Internet Book List
- Crooked Timber: if you could only recommend 2 books
- Good Reads
- One Book List
- Shelfari: share bookshelf contents (Amazon)
- Who Reads What - celebrities favorite books
- AskMetafilter:
→ Author Experiences:
↓ Author Experiences:
- Advances for SciFi and Fantasy authors
- Bad advice on cover letters
- Book Contracts
- Literary Agents:
- Writing a computer book
- McSweeneys email exchange, related article
- Screenwriting:
- Publishing:
- The Long Tail - “A public diary on the way to a book”
- PR:
- PR Web - free press releases
- Wolfram's publishing experience
- Michael Moore's experience
- Right to Read - short story about “Fair Use” becoming illegal
- National Writers Union
- Rejection letters
- What is a word worth?
- Authors on the Web
- Writing:
- How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think
- How to write a fantasy novel (satire)
- The 39 Steps: A Primer on Story Writing
→ Miscellaneous:
↓ Miscellaneous:
- Book Crossing
- Bookbinding tutorials
- Book Stumpers ($)
- British Library
- Califia Books - miniatures
- Critical Reading - a guide
- Digested Read - must-read books in 400 words
- How to Read
- Independent Online Booksellers Association
- Literary Encyclopedia: topics
- Media Chest
- Miniature Book Society, Miniature Books Exhibit
- Odd books
- 100 Best 1st lines
- Publisher's Marketplace, Lunch
- Robot Wisdom etexts
- Study Links
- What books have influenced you and how?
Current Writers:
- Gladwell, Malcolm
- Lonsdale, Joe R. - short stories
- Mead, Rebecca
- Munro, Alice - short stories
- Swedish novels
Plots
- 36 Plots
- Fairy Tales:
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→ Blogs & Magazines:
↓ Blogs:
- Bookslut
- Beatrice
- Elegant Variation
- Absolute Write (forums)
- Literary Mama
- Illustrated books
- Sarah Weinman
- Words without Borders
- Book Forum
- Future of the Book
- Old Hag
- I love books
- Maud Newton
- Fresh Yarn
- All Consuming
- Cup of Chicha
- Moorish Girl
- TMFTML
- Granta
- Holt Uncensored
- Subsystenance
Magazines:
- Paris Review (DNA of Lit., interviews)
- Webdel Sol~ - Lit mags
- World Literature Today