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Full Text Online and E-Books

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Bartleby.com - a supurb collection of searchable full text books ranging from Gray's Anatomy to poetry collections.
Bibliomania - Short stories, books and poetry
Bullfinch's Mythology
Classic Reader Short Stories - this site spotlights some of the world's greatest short stories, full text of other works: drama, fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Some author portraits and biographies are available. (heavy advertising on the pages)
Directory of Open Access Journals - This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages.
EServer Short Fiction - an interesting mix of authors from Poe to Wilde, short stories and novella
The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection -- Read fiction, non-fiction, poetry, etc. online
ManyBooks.Net - download out-of-copyright books to your PDA or iPod
Public Library of Science - a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.
Project Gutenberg - the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet with more than 13,000 eBooks.
Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Poetry
- American Verse Project - 85 volumes of pre-1920 verse, ranging from Emerson and Jones Very to Sandburg and H.D. Searches include single word, phrase, proximity and boolean.
- Dickens project - devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens
- Dickinson Electronic Archives - Emily Dickinson
- Internet Poetry Archive
- Poe's Virtual Library - A meta-index of Edgar Allen Poe info on the web including bibliographies, complete works, courses, essays and societies
- PoemHunter.com - poetry search engine with access to thousands of poems and poets
- The Poet's Corner - one of the largest text resources on the web, user friendly site promotes browsing and exploring
- Walt Whitman Archive - includes works, biography, images and criticism

Online Bookstores

AddAll - for used, rare and out of print titles.
Amazon.com - The Online Bookstore
Barnes and Noble Online Bookstore
Bookfinder4U - Get the best deal, this site compares prices at 55 online bookstores!
Books Price - check the price on multiple books silmultaneously.
Chambal - like the above site, this site queries multiple online booksellers and reports the prices for any given title. It's worth checking both sites as the results are surprisingly variable!
Half.com - a part of eBay, these seem to be the cheapest prices of all!
Borders Books and Music

Reader's Assistance

Author Yellow Pages - links to author and publisher sites. Browsable by author or genre.
Based on the Book - movies based on books, short stories and plays
BookSpot
Book Care and Repair Resources
Bookwire - Book industry news, info, events, features, etc.
Reading Group Choices - find book club discussion guides for hundreds of books back to 1996.
Setting Based Book List - find books by location of setting
USA Today's Book Shelf - See book reviews, first chapters, best sellers, etc.
WorldCat - find books in libraries all over, results let you see nearby libraries who have what your looking for!

Used and Rare Books

Abebooks - Used and rare books
Alibris - Out of Print Books
Antiquarian Booksellers of America - A good site for finding rare books
Bookfinder - searches a number of sites for rare and used books
Bibliofind- Used, old and rare books for sale online

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