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BookSpot
features book-related resources on the Web, such as book reviews, awards, reading lists (including bestsellers, genres, and books for children), and online bookstores.
• Book Browser
  is dedicated to reading, with reading lists, lists of series and sequels, author information, and over 8,000 book reviews.
  Maintained by Janet Lawson and Cindy Orr.

• The Booklist Center
  is an extensive collection of booklists of "award-winning books complete from the first year of the award to the present," and subject lists compiled by authorities.
  By Dr. David Wilson Taylor.

• BookWire links to important sites in the publishing industry.
  The Directory organizes a wealth of book-related sites, as well as information on titles, authors, and publishers. Includes book reviews and lists of award winners. By RR Bowker.

Project Gutenberg,
a mega-collection of "free plain vanilla electronic texts" -- i.e., accessible by all computer-users. Originated by Michael Hart, the Project Gutenberg philosophy is "to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search."
Another link to Project Gutenberg

SearcheBooks.com
A search engine that indexes the full text of thousands of online books

NetLibrary of e-books for UH libraries
Please note:   HCC-users must set up NetLibrary accounts on on-campus computers before accessing NetLibrary remotely.

• Access the Great Books is a compilation of over 240 great authors and their works.
  Managed by Zaine Ridling, sponsored by the Access Foundation.

• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online contains texts, reference, verse, fiction, non-fiction, and the complete works of Shakespeare, selected for their usefulness in education and intellectual history. Edited by Steven van Leeuwen.

• Great Books: Texts and Fully Searchable Concordances to works of Eastern and Western literature.
  Presented by William A. Williams, Jr.

• Great Books and Classic Works of Western Civilization includes classic works of religion, philosophy, politics, science, history, and literature from the East and West, 200 B.C. to the present.

• Great Books Index includes works of works of the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, American literature, etc. By Ken Roberts.

• Hawaii Digital Library of books in English and Hawaiian

• HTI Public Domain Modern English Collection of reference books and texts
  Compiled and presented by the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative.

• Hypertexts @ the University of Virginia for online texts of American literature and links to other collections of electronic texts.

• The On-Line Books Page points to the full-text of books and documents on the Internet, directories and archives of texts, and special exhibits.
  Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, hosted at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Oxford Text Archive provides access to over 2500 resources in more than 25 different languages, including English, Latin, and Greek.

• Reference Books on the Web connects to online versions of ready-reference sources.

• Tales of Wonder -- Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World collected and retold by Richard Darsie.
  More links to folk tales and mythology

• Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library of books and Hawaiian newspapers in Hawaiian and English

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