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From the Cataloguer's Desktop for Beginners, or, How This Thing Works.

First up, I haven't read these books. Not at the time of posting anyway ... I get to a few of them eventually, but there are only so many hours in a day and what I want to read FAR exceeds what I have time to read. There is no guarantee that the books listed here are good books. What you'll find here are books that I (or one of my co-workers) have catalogued ... books that I decided look intriguing, are on uncommon topics, that match up to interests of my friends (who are the reason this whole thing started in the first place), or that are just so weird that they deserve some PR for originality. They are also, as a rule, books that will not show up on a bestseller list or get major promotional space in a bookstore ... books that you might not ever know existed. Until you wandered in here, you poor thing ...

Enjoy!

Note 1: The History
From the Cataloguer's Desktop was born elsewhere ... I am in the process of moving past columns to this location so that they will all be publicly accessible.

Note 2: The Privacy
Part of the reason From the Cataloguer's Desktop moved to its own home was friends expressing a wish to refer friends/acquaintances/coworkers/family to the book lists without exposing their own personal journals via my friends list. Therefore the Desktop friends list is masked so that everybody's privacy is assured ... you're only revealed if you comment (the readers here who know who I really am can comment on my own LJ; for everyone else, anonymous comments are enabled)

Note 3: Just in case printed books are not enough
I'm sure there are more free ebook sites out there ... I'll add them as I locate them.


FREE E-BOOKS:
1st World Library Literary Society
Baen Free Library
The Baldwin Project
Banned Books Online
Bartleby.com
The Beck Center
Bibliomania
Blackmask Online (now renamed "Munseys")
Books About Weaving, Textiles, and Related Topics
Burtoniana.org (Sir Richard Francis Burton)
Canadian Poetry Archive
A Celebration of Women Writers
Chawton House Library & Study Centre
Chiaroscuro
Civitates orbis terrarum
Classic Bookshelf
Classic Short Stories
Coach House Books Online Book Archive
Country Studies (Library of Congress)
Digital Library of India
The Domesday Book
Elfinspell
Emory Women Writers Resource Project
Eserver
The Ex-Classics Web Site
Free Books
FlightSimBooks.com
Google Book Search
Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library
HorrorMasters
Online Comics at Image Comics
Internet Archive
The Internet Classics Archive
Internet Library of Early Journals
Luminarium
The Million Book Project
Munseys (formerly: Blackmask Online)
NASA History Series
The Neddiad
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show
Palin's Travels (includes the complete texts and photos of all his travel books)
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg of Australia
ReadPrint.com
Renascence Editions
Renaissance Festival Books
Representative Poetry Online
Sonnet Central
The Spoken Alexandria Project
Suite 101.com
Telltale Weekly
Theses Canada Portal
Tonight's Bedtime Story
Turning the Pages on the Web, British Library
Turning the Pages Online, National Library of Medicine
The Universal Library (hosted at Carnegie-Mellon University)
University of Adelaide Library E-Books
University of California Press E-Scholarship Editions
University of Illinois Press E-book Library
University of Pennsylvania Online Books Page
University of Virginia Library Digital Text Collections
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Victorian Women Writers Project
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875