Electronic Books and Reviews

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Gateways to Electronic Books: Search Engines and Directories -- Electronic Libraries: Full Text Centers -- Subject-Specific Collections -- Specific Authors and Their Works -- Book Reviews -- Online Sellers and Author Information -- Book Chats and Clubs

Gateways to Electronic Books: Search Engines and Directories

• BookBrowse.com -- provides book excerpts
• BookPage-- gateway to book stores and libraries
• CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library: University of Kansas -- gateway to electronic texts
• DigitalBookIndex: The World's Largest Virtual Library -- offers 50,000+ titles
• Directory of Electronic Text Centers: Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) -- gateway to digital texts projects across globe
• Google: Electronic Texts
• Searchebooks.com -- locates texts based on phrases and subjects

Electronic Libraries: Full Text Centers

• 4Literature -- full-texts of classic poetry and fiction
• Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
• American Verse Project: University of Michigan
• Bartleby.com -- the Internet's original full-text library
• Bibliomania -- offers full library of fiction, reference, and nonfiction titles
• The Books-On-Line Page -- links to over 37,000 books
• Books on the EServer: University of Washington -- classic works in the humanities
• Eldritch Press -- links to selected full text books
• Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia -- humanities and nonfiction titles
• FreePint Bookshelf -- technology and business books
• Humanities Text Initiative (HTI): University of Michigan
• Internet Public Library: Online Texts
• netLibrary -- public domain collection of full text books. Requires a free account for checkout.
• On-Line Books Page: University of Pennsylvania -- links to 20,000+ full text books
• Project Gutenberg -- the Internet's first digital, public library
• Wright American Fiction Collection (1851-1875): Indiana University -- 1750 full-texts of 19th century American fiction

Subject-Specific Collections

• The 19th Century Schoolbooks Project: University of Pittsburgh
• American Studies Hypertexts at the University of Virginia -- full-texts of classic American fiction and nonfiction
• Cyberstacks: Iowa State University -- science and engineering reference texts
• Duke Papyrus Archive: Duke University -- over 1300 images/texts for view online
• Historic Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh -- full-text collection of 300+ books from 1800-early 1900s
• Internet Classics Archive: MIT -- classics of the Greco-Roman era
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies: Georgetown University -- full-texts by classic authors
• Making of America (MoA) -- 8500+ books on American history from the Civil War through Reconstruction
• Medical Student.com -- online medical books, simulations, journals, and directories
• National Academy Press -- roughly 3000 full-text science and technology titles
• Perseus Digital Library: Tufts University -- classical and renaissance-era texts
• Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America: The Library of Congress -- full-texts online

Specific Authors and their Works

• Aesop's Fables
• Audubon's Birds of America: National Audubon Society
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare: MIT -- the web's first complete Shakespeare collection
• Confucius Analects/Sayings -- resources in 20+ languages
• Digital Dante: Columbia University
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Library of Southern Literature: UNC at Chapel Hill. Part of the Documenting the American South Project
• Online Literature Library -- collection of classic British fiction
• Work in Progress: A James Joyce Site -- full-texts of all major novels
• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: The E.A. Poe Society of Baltimore -- full works online

Book Reviews

• The BookBrowser: Barnes and Noble -- offers fiction reviews
• Booklist -- library magazine offering a wide range of reviews, including electronic sources
• Bookreporter.com-- reviews and excerpts
• BookReview.com
• BookReview Online
• Books Online: The Guardian (U.K.) -- book reviews
• Books Unlimited : The Guardian and The Observer (UK)
• Boston Book Review
• Chicago Tribune: Books -- articles and reviews
• Danny Yee's Book Reviews (Australia) -- reviews in many genres
• The Good Book Guide -- recommended reading
• Independent Books (U.K.) -- reviews
• London Review of Books Online
• Netsurfer Books -- reviews
• New York Review of Books -- scholarly reviews
• New York Times Books -- requires free registration to view
• Salon.com: Books -- reviews and author interviews
• SF Gate Book Reviews: San Francisco Chronicle

Online Booksellers and Author Information

• Amazon.com -- Internet's largest bookstore, offering reviews and text viewing
• Authors on the Highway: Publisher's Weekly --offers author touring information.
• Barnes and Noble -- online bookstore with book reviews
• Daedalus Books Online -- discounter of specialized fiction and nonfiction
• Powells -- the famous independent bookstore
• Prairie Lights -- Iowa City's leading independent bookstore

Book Chats and Clubs

• Book Clique Cafe: Reading Groups Online -- directory of book chat groups
• New York Times: Books Reading Groups -- requires free site registration
• Oprah.com: The Oprah Book Club
• SimonSays Reading Groups: Simon and Schuster -- bookclub from noted publisher