Garry Garrett's Homepage

Literature

• Reference Material
• Wikipedia a free online encyclopedia...
• Reference.Com has a dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia on-line.
• Periodic Table of Elements.
• The Virtual Reference Desk.
• Scribd has a number of books on-line in it's own Flash format (you can download them in their original format too). The material here tends to be heavy on reference material, particularly computer related.
• Wikipedia's List of Fallacies and definition of Fallacy
• Calendars:
• Time and Date's Calendar Page
• Fourmilab's Calendar conversion page
• Books
• I am a book-a-holic. If you are decent person you will not sell me another book.
• My electronic Bookshelf contains good books I've read, and books I'm interested in reading. (some of the "books" listed on this page will get moved there).
• WikiBooks - Free on-line books from the makers of Wikipedia...
• Project Gutenberg is dedicated to putting books (those that don't have a copyright or copyright has expired) in electronic format. The project focuses on "E-Texts", that is putting the books into plain ASCII text files. In some cases they have other formats too (HTML, etc.). They also have some audio books in MP3 format (some are read by humans, others were generated by taking the ASCII texts and feeding them through a "text to speech" program).
• The Universal Library has on-line texts. Many are simply copied from Project Gutenberg (see above). Sometimes they have enchanced the texts by converting them to soemthing more readable, like HTML (web pages).
• epubBooks has books in "epub" format.
• Internet Archive
• AudioBooksForFree.com has books being read by humans in MP3 format. For a fee, they will burn them to CD or DVD for you, sell you a hard drive with them preloaded, sell you an MP3 player with them preloaded, etc.
• Yahoo!Books streaming audio books.
• NetLibrary has E-Books, Audio (MP3, etc.) books. Your local library has to subscribe in order for you to get access.
• Eserver.org serving up texts in English.
• Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet. used to be a good source, but as gopher servers have largely been replaced by web servers, some of it's links are no longer valid. Most of the matterial can be found at The Universal Libarary now-a-days.
• Mother Goose is on the web. Interesting how none of the real nursery ryhmes of the same era survived, yet this parody of british politics written in the form of nusery ryhmes (to avoid prosecution, much the same way that political cartoons got started) did. More Nusery Rhymes and Even more Nursry Rhymes.
• The Bookstore Locator. This includes Amazon, a huge bookstore, Bookpool, a techinical bookstore, Technology Books another technical bookstore, or a local Borders bookstore.
• BookFinder.com searches various on-line book vendors and gives you compartive prices.
• AbeBooks - has a very nice collection of new and used books.
• On Demand Books - a method of printing your own books.
• Periodicals
• Commercial News Services on the World Wide Web
• Reuters.
• The Chicago Reader and the Omaha Reader - very politically slanted editorially speaking, but they are free, show where the movies are playing, plays, etc. They also carry the columns:
• News of the Weird.
• Straight Dope.
• The Trifty Nickel - a Omaha "shopper"
• The L.A. Times
• InfoBeat is an online newspaper delivered via e-mail daily.
• Misc
• Comicon is an on-line comic book trading convention.
• Chiasmus - literary quotes
• Deep Thought of the day provides a random Deep Thought from the anals of Jack Handley.
• Mad Libs:
• MadLibs.org
• Wacky Web Tales
• I now have a separate page on Languages with links to language dictionaries.
• I have a separte page for religious literature on the web.
• I've moved most of the links to Humor to it's own page.

Last Updated: 13-Sep-2009