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globe read any of its 42 million books, manuscripts and documents at the click of a
mouse. All it takes is by paying a few cents per page. They send maximum 40 percent of
a book.
The Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center is a bibliographic
site devoted to the culture of twentieth century China. It contains: (1) lists of
translations of modern Chinese literature; (2) bibliographies of literary studies, media
studies, visual arts, education, and music; (3) lists of important journals in the field (with
links to their websites); (4) announcements, lists of relevant associations and institutions;
(5) an image archive; (6) links to Chinese e text; (7) relevant internet resources; (8)
links to websites of university course; and (9) information on how to join the associated
MCLC mailing list.
The British Library is at http://www.bl.uk/. "Book Lovers: Fine Books and
Literature" has links to writers and poets, libraries, publishers and booksellers, both of
new and second hand/antiquarian books.
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Their list is broken down into categories like: Academic bookstores, Alternative,
Archive, Australian, Automotive, Business & Career, Children's, City, Computer &
Technical, Cooking, Co Ops & Book Trading, Gay & Lesbian, General, German, Health
& Nutrition, How To, Israeli, Irish, Martial Arts, Medical & Chiropractic, Multilingual,
Museum, Mystery & Fantasy, Future Fantasy, Nature, Organizational, Photographic,
Progressive, Rare Books, Religious, Special Interest, Spiritual, Swedish, Travel,
University & College, and more.
Roswell Computer Books Ltd.'s online book store in Canada has a large database
of titles. The Internet Book Shop in the United Kingdom offers over 750,000 (1995),
while Book Stacks Unlimited offers over 410,000 titles. Search online, read book
reviews, enter order and credit card information to have the books shipped. They also
offer several free virtual volumes. Amazon.com claims over 1.5 million titles. For yet
more books, check http://www.barnesandnoble.com.
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book "Agrippa".
OCLC's WorldCat is a reference database covering books and materials in
libraries worldwide. Their Online Union Catalog (OLUC) is the world's largest and most
comprehensive bibliographic database.
The Peking University Library (Beijing, China) contains about 4,500,000 items. It
includes 2,700,000 items in Chinese and 900,000 items in different foreign languages.
There are also 650,000 volumes of periodicals and other documents and 160,000 rare
books. The National Library of China (NLC) is at http://www.nlc.gov.cn/etext.htm.
Bookworms may appreciate the DOROTHYL list, and especially if they like
Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey and Dorothy L. Sayers. The Mark Twain forum
(TWAIN L) is at listserv@yorku.ca.
For Stephen King, check out http://www.wco.com/~pace/king.html. Usenet has
alt.fan.holmes, and there is a "Sherlockian Connection" Web page with many links.
The Internet Poetry Archive brings selected poems from several contemporary
poets in different languages, including text, photo of poet, voice of poet reading the
poem, select bibliography, and brief biographical note.
If you are into Very Rare Books, visit the Vatican Library, one of the world's
oldest and most tightly restricted libraries. Founded in the mid 1400s, the library houses
over 150,000 manuscripts and a million printed books, including 80,000 books published
during the first fifty years of the printing press.
Digital images of several full printed volumes, manuscripts, and artworks are
gradually being made available through the Internet. 200 of its most precious
manuscripts, books, and maps many of which played a key role in the humanist
recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and Rome, is available.
If quite impossible to locate a given book, try EXLIBRIS, the Rare Books and
Special Collections Forum.
The Bibliophile Mailing List is for collectors and sellers of old, rare, scarce,
and/or out of print books. It is a forum for buying, selling, and trading books.
On Usenet, they have alt.books.reviews, k12.library, alt.books.technical,
rec.arts.books, and more.
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