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- Project Gutenberg Home Page
- A self-funded project to place on the Web every classic ever written. A must-see site!
- Electronic Reference Books
- The World Factbook
- Published by the Central Intelligence Agency, this wonderful resource contains maps and vital statistics about countries around the world. If you want to learn about the terrain of Bolivia, this is the place to go
- The Library of Congress
- Search the nation's library without leaving your desk or dealing with any ill-tempered librarians. Perfect for building book lists, but you'll have to take a D.C. detour if you want to really browse
- The Internet Public Library
- Like a real public library, this site organizes books and reference collections into rooms and stacks. Click on the image maps for reference, youth, literature, and so on, and you'll find lots of useful links to searchable indexes and downloadable texts
- Webster's English Dictionary
- If you enter a word, Webster's will define it. If you don't know the spelling, give it your best shot and the program will offer alternatives
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Tired of using the same word day after day? Spice up your vocabulary with synonyms from Roget's online thesaurus
- The ETEXT Archives
- Tap into electronic texts all over the Internet, including the Gutenberg electronic-books archive and a plethora of independent electronic publications and magazines
- Lonely Planet
- Lonely Planet publishes some of the finest printed travel guides on earth, and its invaluable insights are available online as well. You get the lowdown on the customs, culture, currency, climate, and cuisine of just about any destination that comes to mind
- Banned Books On-Line
- From Ulysses to Huckleberry Finn, this is the place to go to read books that somebody, somewhere, sometime, thought shouldn't be read by anyone. If you're shocked by the logic behind this literary cleansing, links to activist sites allow you to speak out
- The Works of the Bard
- "To be or not to be?" Find out the answer to that question and more
- Fiction Page
- Catch up on all the classics you didn't have time for in high school, with this concise compilation of links to the literary elite.