====== Links for Book Nerds ======
A collection of links for websites and other things that'll interest my fellow book nerds. To be sorted better later.

===== Guides and Such =====
That I wrote!
  * [[guides:alt_goodreads]]
  * [[guides:amazon_alt_ebooks|]]
  * [[guides:calibre_beyondbooks|]]
  * [[guides:swap_books|]]

===== Misc. Links =====
  * [[https://www.romance.io/]] -- romance book database, with helpful things like filtering by trope or romance type
  * [[https://deweysreadathon.wordpress.com/|Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon]] -- annual event, usually in the spring
  * [[http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/|GNU Terry Pratchett]] 

===== Free Books =====
==== General Websites ====
  * [[https://www.gutenberg.org/|Project Gutenberg]] -- over 70,000 ebooks, mostly classics, in all sorts of genres
    * [[https://www.pgdp.net/c/|Distributed Proofreaders]] -- goes through new book files and finds errors before they're officially released
    * [[https://gutenberg.net.au/|Project Gutenberg Australia]] has Australian public domain books specifically
    * [[https://gutenberg.ca/index.html|Project Gutenberg Canada]] has Canadian public domain books!
    * [[https://girlebooks.com/|Girlebooks]] -- reformatted book files, focused on female authors. Includes some modern titles!
  * [[http://www.digitalbookindex.org/about.htm|Digital Book Index]] -- "Digital Book Index provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free."

==== Free from Publishers/Authors ====
  * [[https://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/|Baen CD Books]] -- SFF books published by Baen and released for free
    * see also: [[https://www.baen.com/catalog/category/view/s/free-library/id/2012|Baen Free Library]]
  * [[https://www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/|SFF books by Dorothy J. Heydt]]

==== Specific Books ====
  * [[http://textfiles.com/100/hack11a.txt|Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown]] (1994) [txt] -- history of early internet and hackers
  * [[http://www.perpetualtravel.com/rtw/|Round-The-World Travel Guide]] -- old, but entertaining!