Fiction, Poetry, Authors, Criticism, Book Clubs, Linguistics & Etymology, Translation
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Academy of American Poets- Poems, poet biographies, teaching materials and National Poetry Month resources from the US poetry organisation.
Free eBooks- Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
Goodreads- Book cataloguing community where readers rate titles, write reviews and follow what friends are reading.
ibiblio.org- The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.
Internet Archive- Nonprofit digital library offering the Wayback Machine and archived books, audio and software
Literary Hub- Daily hub for essays, excerpts, interviews and book news gathered from publishers, magazines and bookshops.
Online Etymology Dictionary- Traces the origins and shifting meanings of English words, compiled from historical and philological sources.
Open Library- Open catalogue aiming for one page per published book, with controlled digital lending of scanned titles.
Poetry Foundation- Searchable archive of poems and poets, plus Poetry magazine, criticism, podcasts and classroom resources.
The Paris Review- Quarterly publishing fiction and poetry, best known for its long-running Writers at Work author interviews.
Wikipedia- Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
WordReference- Bilingual dictionaries and busy language forums where translators debate idiom, usage and tricky phrasing.
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