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	Electronic Books and Reviews (Free Full Text, Excerpts and Citations) Scroll down the desktop or select an area of interest: Gateways to Electronic Books: Search Engines and Directories -- Electronic Libraries: Full Text Centers -- Subject-Specific Collections -- Specific Authors and their Works -- Book Reviews -- Online Booksellers 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. 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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
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