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things & stuff

by
stephen t. balbach
stephen@balbach.net

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community

* CoolReading. Book reviews, 2004-present. Most are cross-posted to Amazon (Top 500 reviewer) and LibraryThing and a few to Internet Archive.
* MetaFilter. Ranked among top 10 posters, which really, can't be good.
* Wikipedia. Started around June 2004 and by May 2007 was ranked #350 by number of edits and then burned out, not as active since.

compilations

* archive.org/text FAQ (unofficial) for using archive.org's Texts collection.
* Online Index to The Best American Science and Nature Writing Series. Indexing an anthology.
* Online Index to `Notes and Queries' (1849-1922). Index of volumes freely available online, the 19th century Wikipedia.
* Best Online Lectures. List of some of the best online lectures I have watched, mostly from TED and Google Talks.
* Forgotten Victorian Literature. Some of the best little known Victorian literature.
* The Native Scottish Diet in Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides
* The Annotated List of Characters in Emile Zola's La Terre
* The Online Index to National Geographic's Top 100 Adventure/Travel Books

programs

* Author Watchlist. This simple Unix script is an author watchlist. It will email you whenever a new book comes out by an author(s) on your watchlist. Keep track of your favorite/obscure authors without relying on the luck of popular media or trips to the book store to discover when new books come out. It uses LibraryThing for a database, but you don't need an account there.

websites

* The Annotated Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde. Although there are many annotated editions, this one is excellent for the general reader wishing to understand some of the more obscure words and references, a great reading edition.
* The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes' . The most complete annotated edition anywhere in print or on the web.
* Western USA 2003. Nomad vagabonding on the back-roads of America.

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