Steven Alexander's Books, Text and News bookmarks

• * Literature
• * Language
• * Newspapers, Magazines, TVNews
• * Games
• * Classified but not permanently accepted

Literature

• Text
  • Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
  • The On-line-Books Page: by Title, by Author
  • Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
  • English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
  • The Internet Classics Archive
  • Concordances of Great Books not copyrighted
  • Project Bartleby (Bartlett's, other out-of-© works)
  • Shakespeare (The-Tech, MIT), The Shakespeare Web, The Collected Works of Shakespeare, Coined by Shakespeare (a book in progress)
  • Quotation Search
  • The Poetry Archives
• Libraries
  • Library Catalogs with Web Interfaces
  • Library of Congress and Experimental Search System
  • Multnomah County (OR) Library; Portland State Univ. Library catalog MCL: The Bookmark (incl. annual book sale)
  • NY Public Library (login as `nypl')
  • Melvyl Catalog (California Digital Library)
• bookcovers by ISBN
• Booksellers
  • BookSense, ABA (independent bookstores') collective site (overdue: "Summer 1999")
  • BookSite
  • ISBN Search (several bookstores)
  • Top ten book search resources
  • Book search/comparison (booksearchengine)
  • Acses, the Universe's Smartest Bookfinder (compares prices)
  • Shops search
    • Advanced Book Exchange (abebooks);
    • Bibliofind;
    • BookFinder;
    • Alibris (said to mark up 20% over others)
    • Booksearch Databases
    • Bookavenue.com search
  • Book-Compare
  • AuthorStore.com - best book prices
  • AddALL book search and price comparison
  • Internet Bookshop, UK
  • Book Stacks Unlimited
  • Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA
  • Blackwell's Books, London
  • Waterstone's Bookstore, London
  • Amazon.com Books (sh $3 + $1 per) (PCkBk $24, UPT $48, EffPP $26.36 shipping prices); (amazon.co.uk, shipping)
  • A1Books, "15-30% off" (sh $3 + $1 per) {PCkbk $26.25, UPT $46.75, MAwP $23}
  • Fatbrain bookshops (20%) ($4 + $1 per ($5 + $1 std)) {PCkbk $24, UPT $48, EffPP, $26.35, MAwP $28}; Computer Literacy Bookshop:
    520 Lawrence Exp, Sunnyvale CA 94086 (408) 730-9955
    2590 N 1 St, San Jose CA 95131 (408) 435-1118
  • Bookpool: Discount technical bookstore (actual sh) (PCkbk $26, EffPP $21, UPT $38, N-DWB $19, MAwP $23)
  • Spree Books ($5 shipping) (PCkBk $24)
  • Barnes & Noble ($3 + $1 per) {PCkBk $32, UPT $48, N-DWB $24, MAwP $28}
  • Powell's
  • Remainders
    • 1Bookstreet remainders (to 80% off; $0 shipping)
    • BookCloseOuts.com
    • Library Book Sales in the USA
  • Exchanges
    • BOOKSWAP TEXTBOOKS - USED COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS EXCHANGE
    • Exbook - Exchanging Books (no books as of 1999-9-28)
• Book collecting
  • rec.collecting.books FAQ
  • How to Collect Books - an essay
• A Celebration of Women Writers

Language

• WWWebster Dictionary - Search screen (Merriam-Webster)
• Random House College Dictionary
• OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder
• Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
• dictionary.com
• The Word Detective
• Translation
  • travlang's Translating Dictionaries
  • AltaVista Babelfish Translations (10K limit) (sp fr de it pg); FreeTranslation.com (fr de sp -> en -> fr de sp it no pg)
  • WinDi translation FreeWare (German, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese)
  • New German-English Dictionary (good search)
  • Latin Dictionary
  • Translator links
  • Collection of Translating Dictionaries
  • FB-WinTranslator [Deutsch]
  • List of Dictionaries (incl. English<->{Slovene, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Finnish, French, Estonian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Indonesian, Swedish, Esperanto, Chinese})
  • Online Language Dictionaries and Translators
  • Machine Translation Systems (Rivendell)
  • Online Dictionaries and Translators (Rivendell)
  • Multi-Language Translator (Rivendell)
  • Multi-Language Translator (TranExp)
  • The LOGOS Translating Dictionary (several languagues)
  • Ergane -- translator for Windows (via Esperanto)
  • Anthon's english-polish dictionary
  • A small English-Polish dictionary
  • English - Czech Dictionary
  • a demonstration of translating forward and back repeatedly
  • Sebnet Real-time Translator (fr/en so far; 50-word sample)
  • InterTran
  • Tolken97 translation
  • Russian/English Translator (PROMT)
  • FreeTranslation.comTra
  • The Translator's Home Companion
  • EuroDicAutom
  • Bilingual Dictionaries
  • The Languages Hub
  • The American·British - British·American Dictionary (Jeremy..)
  • Swedish (~8 SEK = 1 USD)
    • Swedish-English (travlang)
    • Swedish-English Dictionary (Swedish School Computer Network)
    • Swedish<-->English Dictionary
    • Swedish idioms in literal translation
    • Swedish/English usage: Parallel texts in Göteborg
    • Yahoo! Social Science:Linguistics and Human Languages:Languages:Specific Languages:Swedish
    • Introduction to Swedish (SSE)
    • Web of On-line Dictionaries III - Swedish
    • Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) (SEK 179)
    • Retskrivningsordbogen 1996, Dansk Sprognĉvn (non-translating)

Newspapers, Magazines, TVNews

• Collections
  • The Global Kiosk - 150+ newspapers; maps
  • Ecola: Newsstand: United States; Searchable Newspaper Archives
• Newspapers
  • US
    • Chicago Reader Movie Section
    • The Straight Dope
    • Columbia Journalism Review
    • Netly News Network
    • The Associated Press
    • The Yuma Daily Sun Engine search AZ
    • The Los Angeles Times Web Site; Archives Help, Simple Search, Power Search, CA
    • The Fresno Bee, CA
    • The Orange County Register, CA
    • Sacramento Bee, CA
    • San Jose Mercury News; search, CA
    • Santa Rosa Press Democrat CA
    • San Diego Source: San Diego News Library & Archives (CA)
    • The Denver Post Online, CO
    • High Country News, Paonia, CO
    • WashingtonPost.com, DC; search
    • Bradenton Herald NewsLibrary FL
    • Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Archives (FL)
    • The Tampa Tribune, FL
    • The Gainesville Sun, FL
    • Chicago Tribune, IL
    • Boston Globe Online, MA
    • The Boston Phoenix, MA
    • Standard-Times South coast, MA
    • The newStandard Archive South coast, MA
    • The Holland Sentinel archives, MI
    • Star Tribune Online, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
    • Baltimore Sun search, MD
    • Raleigh News & Observer, NC
    • NJO: NewsFlash Newark Star-Ledger, Trenton Times, NJ
    • Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV
    • Las Vegas Sun search (NV)
    • Las Vegas Sun: Site map (NV)
    • The Library @newsday.com, NY
    • The New York Times on the Web; CyberTimes; TimesFax; NYT/today's headline stories on 1 page (Asahi-NewsPaper-nyt); NYT as fed to MPR
    • Findlay Courier Electronic Edition OH
    • Tulsa World On-Line Search, OK
    • Philadelphia Online, PA
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA
    • Austin Chronicle, TX
    • Dallas Morning News search, TX
    • Houston Chronicle Interactive, TX
    • Salt Lake Tribune, UT, search
    • The Seattle Times search, WA
    • Horvitz Newspapers Seattle suburb, WA
    • Knight-Ridder Newsstand; newspapers:
      • Lexington Herald-Leader, KY
      • The Tallahassee Democrat, FL
      • The Long Beach Press-Telegram, search, CA
      • The Charlotte Observer, NC
      • The Sun Herald, Biloxi/Gulfport, MS
      • Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA
      • Centre Daily Times, State College, PA
      • Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, PA
      • St. Paul Pioneer Press, MN
      • The Bradenton Herald, FL
      • Edmonton Journal search (AB)
      • Ft Wayne News-Sentinel NewsLibrary IN
      • The Macon Telegraph, GA
      • Miami Herald; NewsLibrary search (stubs), FL
      • The State, Columbia, SC
      • The Beacon Journal, Akron, OH
    • The Nation - search
    • The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
    • USA Today; online archive; newspaper archive
    • The Christian Science Monitor; archives
    • The Village Voice Online
  • Canada
    • Canada.com - Newspaper Network Members
    • Toronto Globe and Mail
    • Canadian News "Canoe" CNEWS search
    • Vancouver Sun
  • UK & Eire
    • The Times (of London), The Sunday Times Internet Edition; The Sunday Times (London)
    • Daily Record and Sunday Mail
    • Electronic Telegraph (UK)
    • Search UK newspapers (PA NewsCentre)
    • Financial Times of London; US edition
    • Irish Times
  • Europe
    • French-Language Media Online (AFP)
    • Die Welt - Archiv (Germany)
    • Bild online Archiv (Germany)
    • BerlinOnline suchmaschine (Germany)
    • INTERNETAvisen Jyllands-Posten - Arkiv (Denmark)
    • Het Telegraaf-i Nieuwsarchief (Nederlands)
    • L'Unità search (Italy)
    • la Repubblica: ricerca (Italy)
    • St Petersburg Times search (Russia)
  • Australasia
    • The Hindu
    • The News International, Pakistan
    • Daily Yomiuri On-Line
    • Asahi Shimbun / Asahi Evening News (Tokyo)
    • Bangkok Post; search
    • The Star (Malaysia)
    • Daily News of Sri Lanka
    • The Straits Times (Singapore)
    • The Sun-Herald (Sydney, Australia)
    • Sydney Morning Herald & related pubs search (Australia)
    • The Melbourne Age search (Australia)
    • The Australian Online: Search
    • Fairfax newspapers search (Australia)
    • New Zealand News - The Press on-line
  • Middle East
    • Jerusalem Post (NA mirror)
    • Haaretz Daily Newspaper search archive (Israel)
    • The Yemen Times search page
  • Africa
    • The Mail & Guardian archive search (South Africa)
    • Daily Nation (Kenya)
  • Bermuda Sun archive/search
• TV/Radio News
  • Vanderbilt Television News Archive
  • MSNBC
  • CNN Interactive
  • CNET
  • news.cnet.com
  • FOX News
  • ABC News; affiliate stations
  • BBC World Service
  • Deutsche Welle radio: English Programme
  • The Voice of Russia [World Service in English]
• Magazines
  • Time Magazine
  • Pathfinder -- Time Magazine, etc.
  • U.S. News & World Report, search
  • The Atlantic Monthly
  • Life Magazine

Games

• "Word Ways" articles listed by Author
• Scrabble FAQ [flat text]
• Scrabble FAQ supplement [flat text]
• MarlDOoM crossword game server
• Internet Park: Main Gate [Boggle & Scrabble?]
• Java Scrabble by Graham Savage
• Hasbro CD-ROM games price list (3rd party?)
• Archives for CRUCIVERB-L
• Scrabble FAQ -- hypertext
• Tinyfugue info
• Tinyfugue
• AvPlay For Windows Winsock MUD Client
• About PerlMUD 2.1
• uk-scrabble mailing list Archive by thread
• crossword-games-pro mailing list selective archive
• GamePro Game Industry News: HomePageMap
• /user/b/barry directory (Griffon, Look, TEA)
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for rec.puzzles.crosswords

Classified but not permanently accepted

• Books
• Language recreations and reference
• Newspapers

• Books
  • Rare and Antiquarian Book Vendors Directory (AcqWeb)
  • AddALL Used and Out of Print book search
  • ABookCoop.org
  • bookradar.com
  • ECAMPUS.COM - Textbooks (incl. user auctions)
  • BookSeek -- collecting book searches
• Language recreations and reference
  • Translation & Foreign-language dictionaries
    • A Web of On-line Dictionaries
    • Dictionary resources (The DICT Development Group)
    • Türkçe Sözlük / Turkish Dictionary
    • Euralex: Tools: Concordancers
    • Jim Breen's WWWJDIC - Japanese->English translator
    • Japanese <-> English Dictionary Server (Jeffrey Friedl)
    • Japanese <-> English Dictionary Server (Jeffrey Friedl)
    • Xlation.com - Dictionaries
    • Gaelic Dictionaries Online
  • English Dictionaries, Glossaries & the like
    • New Oxford English Dictionary
    • The American Heritage Book of English Usage (1996)
    • Dictionary of Newfoundland English (U Toronto Press)
    • Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913 (Universal Library); Hypertext Websters Unabridged (1913) gateway at UCSD; The Online Plain Text English Dictionary (OPTED), v0.03 - MW 1913; The Biggest Online Text Dictionary on the Web (apparently Websters 1913? 3NI?); Webster's 1913
    • Hypertext Webster Gateway at UCSD
    • Information Please, including Random House College Dictionary
    • Thesaurus.com
    • Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT)
    • American Heritage Dictionary @Lycos
    • Lexical FreeNet (associations from and connections between words)
    • Dictionaries (U of AL)
    • Electronic Reference Shelf
    • The Macquarie Dictionary
    • Glossary of Calendrical Terms
    • British National Corpus
    • Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, rev. ed. 1894
    • Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (BYU); Figures of Speech Tables; Literary Terms, categorized (The UVic Writer's Guide); Linguistic Phenomena/Devices; Linguistics glossary; Linguistic Glossary (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
    • Acronyms and blends
    • Scots Orthography (lack of stds bec. rep'd as incorrect English) (David Purves)
    • British National Corpus search
    • The Standard Corpus of Present Day English Language Usage
  • General Reference
    • Units (Merriam-Webster)
    • reference tables (Merriam-Webster)
    • Research-It! - Your one-stop reference desk
    • Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library
    • Encarta Online (encyclopedia); search
    • Grolier Encyclopedia Online
    • Jumbo! - Homework Heaven (general reference)
  • What does your phone number spell?
  • Collins Corpus: CobuildDirect Demonstration Form
  • Advanced Quotation Search
  • Eli's Quotes Page
  • American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise: Glossary
  • Reference.COM Search (Usenet & mailing lists)
  • The Elements of Style (William Strunk, 1918)
• Newspapers
  • Collections
    • Newspapers Online (Newspaper Assn of America)
    • Newspapers of US and Canada (well organized)
    • State-by-state on-line newspapers (Salt Lake Tribune)
    • Newspapers and other Media (Press Democrat's excellent links)
    • Comprehensive Newspapers-on-the-Web (Am J Review)
    • Index of *local* news source worldwide
    • Alternative Weeklies directory
    • Houston Press, Dallas Observer, New Times BPB, Miami New Times, New Times LA, SF Weekly, WestWord, Phoenix New Times
  • Electric Library (search magazines, newspapers, tv/radio tr, books; for students?)
  • News Index (indexing others' newspapers)
  • US Newspaper Archives on the Web
  • Swedish newspapers
  • Canada Newswire Ltd search

• Clear Ink SpellWeb
• /listserv/folk_music/discographies
• Alt.usage.english FAQ
• Miss Grammar column, (Karen Larsen, courtesy of Miller Nash law firm)
• The Universal Library - collecting on-line periodicals
• pen names
• pen and other pseudo- names
• WordNet -- Lexical Semantic Database (Princeton Univ)
• Voycabulary - dictionary tool
• Associated Press Wire (via The Oregonian)
• Acronym Finder
• BookSense
• Finnish-English-Finnish dictionary FinnPlace
• The Nation (of Thailand) : Back issue news
• IPL Reading Room Newspapers (Internet Public Library)
• Great Books for Free (knowledgerush.com)
• Making of America (texts)
• Melvyl
• Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK
• Book Search Links (Loganberry Books)
• American Heritage Dictionary 4th ed. 2000, index
• Swedish-English CS instructions
• The Big List of Words and Phrases - etymology (wordorigins.org)
• Origin of Phrases - Have Origins
• doublediscount.com
• Verbatim - the language quarterly
• Annotated Text Corpora
• WordSmith Tools - for handling corpora, making concordances
• WordSmith (Mike Scott's homepage for above)
• Kaj's Swedish-English Dictionary u.p.a.
• Telia Swedish-English Dictionary
• ThePaperboy.com | Online Newspaper Directory
• BookSite.com
• FreeTranslation.com - English -- Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian (and JavaScript to insert accented characters)