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September 09, 2004CliffsNotes Now Available for Free Online Viewing
CliffsNotes has announced that they've got 180 literature guides online for free viewing. The snag is that viewing is the only thing that's free. Downloading and printing the guides will cost $5.99 The CliffsNotes site is at http://www.cliffsnotes.com . You...
Continue reading "CliffsNotes Now Available for Free Online Viewing" » August 13, 2004The Harry Potter News Aggregator
Has anyone else had the problem that they read the title "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" as "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Uzbekistan" ? Perhaps it's just me. Anyway, if you're a Potterhead (or a Malfoyhead or...
July 22, 2004Library of Congress announces Lewis Carroll Collection
The Library of Congress has announced The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection, now available at http://international.loc.gov/intldl/carrollhtml/ . Lewis Carroll, he of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Though the Looking-Glass (also known as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) kept a scrapbook and this is...
Continue reading "Library of Congress announces Lewis Carroll Collection" » June 29, 2004Naropa University Teams Up With Internet Archive
Naropa University has teamed up with the Internet Archive to provide online access to its collection of audio recordings. The recordings represent 30 years of classes, lectures, and other presentations by literary figures who have participated in Naropa University writing...
Continue reading "Naropa University Teams Up With Internet Archive" » April 27, 2004Hey! Huah! Book Recommendations! Good Gnod, Ya'll!
If you've run out of books to read and are down to deciding between an old JC Penny's catalog and a copy of LANDO SACKETT that you've read eighty billion times, you'll appreciate the humor and book-recommending wisdom that is...
Continue reading "Hey! Huah! Book Recommendations! Good Gnod, Ya'll!" » April 05, 2004USA Today Has Database of Bestsellers
Now you don't have to wonder anymore exactly how much Harry Potter has dominated the best-seller charts. Now you can find out at USA Today's bestsellers database, available at http://asp.usatoday.com/life/books/booksdatabase/default.aspx . The data is limited; the database goes back only...
March 30, 2004New Database on Crime, Mystery, and Detective Fiction, Film, and Television
If you're all about the clues and the mysteries and the detectives, you'll enjoy Crime Fiction Canada, which despite its name covers crime fiction, film, and television from all over the world. It's available at http://www.brocku.ca/crimefictioncanada . There are actually...
Continue reading "New Database on Crime, Mystery, and Detective Fiction, Film, and Television" » March 15, 2004Database of Children's Literature Scholarship
ABC-Lit is an index to children's literature scholarship. It looks like it focuses on eleven periodicals, which doesn't sound like much but bear in mind that a) this is pretty specialized and b) most of the holdings go back to...
Continue reading "Database of Children's Literature Scholarship" » March 08, 2004Free SF/F Books Online From Baen
Last year I was complaining about the fact that I didn't have any fiction to read and a friend of mine recommended the Belisarius series by David Drake and Eric Flint. This started me off on an entire alternative history...
September 24, 2003Open the Door For Your Golden Gate Mystery Date
How many mystery, detective, and crime fiction titles are either actually set in San Francisco and the Bay area, or have significant portions occur in the SF and Bay area? Randal Brandt has found over 950 and he's put them...
Continue reading "Open the Door For Your Golden Gate Mystery Date" » August 25, 2003Index of E-Books Available Online
There's a huge index of over 73,000 English-language book texts available at http://www.digitalbookindex.com/ . There's a semi-registration required to use this site. The actual search page for this resource is at http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm , but before you get to that you'll...
July 15, 2003Database of Science Fiction Books and Authors
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book List Site (http://www.sfbooklist.co.uk/) is an attempt to put together a comprehensive bibliography of science fiction and fantasy authors. Considering that this site has over 4,000 authors, they're doing a pretty good job. Oddly enough,...
Continue reading "Database of Science Fiction Books and Authors" » July 11, 2003Lii.org Releases Subject Guide for Mysteries
To celebrate their inclusion in a mystery novel, the Librarians' Index to the Internet has released "Mysteries and More," a searchable subject index for mystery reading. It's at http://lii.org/search/file/mysteries. Topics include book lists, awards, detective slang, and mystery reading groups....
Continue reading "Lii.org Releases Subject Guide for Mysteries March 18, 2003Books In Print Offers Children's Book Information
Online book information service BooksInPrint.com ( http://www.booksinprint.com/ ) now has a children's section available. Once you've logged in (this is a pay service) pick the Children's Room. There you'll have the opportunity to search in several different ways. You...
Continue reading "Books In Print Offers Children's Book Information" » October 17, 2002Archive Planned for Walt Whitman Manuscripts
Two University of Nebraska faculty members have received a $245,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a two year project that will create a virtual archive of Walt Whitman manuscripts. The project will be an effort...
Continue reading "Archive Planned for Walt Whitman Manuscripts" » July 31, 2002Robin Hood Research
The Robin Hood Project ( http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/rhhome.stm ) is a collection of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales. There are seven sets of information on this site. First there's Robin Hood tales,...
July 25, 2002Digitized 18th Century Books
I'm a little late on this one. The Gale Group announced last month a project to digitize nearly 150,000 English-language titles published between 1701 and 1800. Called The Eighteenth Century, this project should make the titles online beginning in June...
June 22, 2002Tolkien-Inspired Artwork: The Gallery
How much do you like Tolkien? A lot? So do lots of other people. In fact, there's a gallery completely devoted to Tolkien-inspired artwork at http://www.nightrunner.com/gallery/html/ . There are several ways to view the materials on this site. The top...
December 31, 2001Tough Eggs and Gun Molls -- Detective Listings
If you're into that yummy pulp goodness, you'll like Thrilling Detective ( http://www.thrillingdetective.com/), a site devoted to -- you guessed it! Detectives! This site has a lot of detective-oriented resources but of particular interest is the alphabetical list of detectives....
Continue reading "Tough Eggs and Gun Molls -- Detective Listings" » December 12, 2001New York Times Launches Tolkien Archives
If you've got Lord of the Ring tickets in your pocketses (gollum, gollum) you may be interested in the latest New York Times archive, The Tolkien Archives: A Guide to the World of J.R.R. Tolkien. The site, at http://www.nytimes.com/tolkien/, will...
Continue reading "New York Times Launches Tolkien Archives" » April 10, 2001Shakesearch (Shakespeare Search Engine)
Need to search Shakespeare? You'll have a few different options at http://www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare/. This search engine searches each line of Shakespeare's writing for the keywords you specify. The search interface looks standard, but you have to be careful how you...
Continue reading "Shakesearch (Shakespeare Search Engine)" » March 30, 2001Theme From An Imaginary Library
When the wagons, leave the city, for the forests, and further on... oh, sorry, that's the theme from an imaginary WESTERN. Quite different from the Invisible Library ( http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/ ), a reference for books which exist only in books. You...
January 03, 2001A Search Engine for Bookworms
Wow, what an engine. Allreaders ( http://www.allreaders.com ) allows you to search for book information through several different elements, including plot, main character, main adversary, plot elements, etc. The site divides the books into several genres (literature, sci-fi, romance, etc.)....
November 13, 2000Fantastic Fiction Bibliographic Database Online
As a non-fiction book writer, I am in awe of fiction writers. I mean, I work from research and an outline, but fiction writers have to make stuff up! Out of their own heads! Wow! If you're into science fiction,...
Continue reading "Fantastic Fiction Bibliographic Database Online" » June 27, 2000Makers of SearchMil and SearchGov offer SearcheBooks
The folks who brought you SearchEdu and SearchGov are now out with SearcheBooks at http://www.searchebooks.com/? . It looks like the Google interface, and it doesn't seem to offer Boolean OR, only AND or NOT (and phrases, of course). On the...
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