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!
Misc. Links
- https://www.romance.io/ – romance book database, with helpful things like filtering by trope or romance type
- Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon – annual event, usually in the spring
Free Books
General Websites
- Project Gutenberg – over 70,000 ebooks, mostly classics, in all sorts of genres
- Distributed Proofreaders – goes through new book files and finds errors before they're officially released
- Project Gutenberg Australia has Australian public domain books specifically
- Project Gutenberg Canada has Canadian public domain books!
- Girlebooks – reformatted book files, focused on female authors. Includes some modern titles!
- 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
- Baen CD Books – SFF books published by Baen and released for free
- see also: Baen Free Library
Specific Books
- Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown (1994) [txt] – history of early internet and hackers
- Round-The-World Travel Guide – old, but entertaining!