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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.
These Web sites provide the text of
books and notable documents online.
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
If you have suggestions for helpful sites on the Internet, send the URLs
to the address below. Mahalo!
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