In an interesting blend of digital technology and book-related humanitarianism, the Endangered Collections Digitization Project of Libraries Without Walls provides partner libraries (the famous Vatican Library among them!) with the technology necessary for digital textual preservation. Looking for Creative Commons texts online? Internet Archives may be the one-stop resource for you. With lots of links and with new texts added nearly daily, it is quite the clearinghouse for free digital texts and audio files in the public domain.
Of course, if you’re looking for that really hard-to-find book, the Neglected Books Page may be the better bet. This blog reminds readers of titles long since forgotten by most of the reading world, and even directs would-be readers to online booksellers from which to procure copies of these neglected texts.
If you still can’t find any good reading, check out Gnooks.com, through which you can get a personalized suggestion of other authors whose works are likely to be of interest, simply by entering the title of a book you enjoyed.
Once you’ve figured out what you want to read, look for reviews at any number of book blogs, searchable through the Book Blogs Search Engine, which searches 946 book-related sites.
-- Rachel Frier
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