| Name: | Comments: |
|---|---|
| Alex | Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the
Internet. Aging, but very good |
| Bartleby: Great Books Online | An AMAZING array of good books |
| Bartlett's Familiar Quotations | Editor avoids quotes from Conservative sources |
| UC(Berkley) collection | |
| Clasic Reader | Some very good books that have stood the test of time. |
| E-Books Directory | not huge but good accademic stuff |
| Etext Archives | Mixed bad. Fun |
| FreeComputerBooks.com | |
| FreeTechBooks.com | The name says it all. |
| Gulf Coast Community College | Links |
| Gutenberg | Huge |
| Internet
Archive |
Also audio and video |
| ManyBooks.net | |
| Munseys | lots of fluff and some good |
| Online Books Page | CMU; text and photo copies |
| Oxford Text Archive | SGML format |
| University of Virginia Library | Big, but many areas restricted to on campus use |
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition | Very good. Oldest known dictionary on net. |
| Name | Comments |
|---|---|
| Acronym Finder | Acronyms and expressions |
| American-British
British-American |
Sir Winston was right. |
| Devil's Dictionary | Very Funny |
| Dictionary.com | Portal to dictionary type services |
| ESL for Americans | American/British problem words |
| Funk & Wagnall's | Dictionary, Encyclopedia, others. |
| Hypertext Webster Gateway | Even finds close spellings ;-) |
| Merriam-Webster OnLine | Dictionary and other items |
| Onelook Dictionaries | Good search system. Don't have to know the exact spelling. Many linked dictionaries. |
| Quotations Page | Search on words. |
| Research Desk | Dictionaries, maps, lots of other stuff |
| Roget's Thesaurus | The one and only |
| Vocabulary Helper | |
| Word Detective | |
| Your Dictionary | Dictionaries, thesauri, specialized lists |
| Name: | Comments: |
|---|---|
| Britannica | |
| Britannica from 1911 | Amazing how things have changed and many have not. |
| Webopedia | Computer related |
| Wikipedia | The readers write it. Amazing. |
Language related sources:
| Name: | Comments: |
|---|---|
| Dialectizer | Not very politically correct. |
| English Consulting | Aids and Question answering svc |
| Free Translation | Translates text and web pages |
| Guide to Prepositions | |
| Human Language Page | Large English section |
| Name: | Comments: |
|---|---|
| Anagram Server | cecil broom = broccoli me |
| Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE | Tools, images, text |
| Rhyming Dictionary | Rhyme in several ways. A free service of WriteExpress. |
| Name: | Comments: |
|---|---|
| Amazon | Outstanding |
| MacMillan Computer Publishing | Also has Personal Bookshelf |
| Prentice Hall | 1-888-906-8410 System Partners #NI02 |
| O'Reilly | |
| README.DOC | Good discounts |
| Name | Comments |
|---|---|
| Everybook | 2 screen system |
| Jeffreys | Nov '98 and following present softrware |
| NuvoMedia | Rocket Book |
| Qubit | Web browsing pad |
| SoftBook | Viewers and e-books |
| TeleRead | Mostly realted to portable e-books and available books |
| Name | Comments |
|---|---|
| Elements of Style | by Strunk. Other books |
| Permanence | Ink and paper characteristics. Life can be very short. |
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