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On-Line Books Page. From Carnegie-Mellon University, links to over 9,000 books that can be read for free on the Internet. Mainly out-of-copyright classics in English but also foreign language archives and specialty archives (from childrens literature to science fiction). (Beware: some of these files are huge.)
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts. Classics in English and American literature and Western philosophy online and downloadable as PDF files. Many books are searchable.
Project Gutenberg. Public-domain bookslight literature, heavy literature, and reference books in "plain vanilla ASCII."
Books in Chains. English resources on the Web, including links to indexes, electronic texts, specific canons/disciplines, libraries and institutions, booksellers, author pages, and literary magazines on the Web.
First Chapters (New York Times Books). First chapters of some of the new books reviewed in The New York Times.
Bookwire. Publishers Weekly Web page, including links to online book review magazines.
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The Independent Reader. Recommendations by leading independent bookstores.
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