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YPN: E-text Libraries
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Punk killed arena rock, video killed the radio star, and now futurologists are suggesting that the online world will kill -- or at least seriously wound -- the way we store our literature. Electronic books, they insist, will rise up to overcome the outmod
ed codexes, rip their pages, break their spines. But the truth is far more complicated. While the Net has changed the face of publishing, it hasn't disfigured it, as such sites as Banned Books Online and The WorldWide Web Virtual Library: Literature prove
. If you want to see how the electronic medium is conspiring with traditional publication, visit Dial-A-Book Chapter One.
ON THE NET

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Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
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Alex likes to read. In fact, Alex is one of the largest clearinghouses of electronic-text links, with thousands of books ranging from classical Greek plays to nineteenth-century fiction to contemporary political philosophy.
INTERNET
- www http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/alex-index.html
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Banned Books Online
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Remember the guilty pleasure of reading Lady Chatterley's Lover for the first time, hunched under the blanket with a flashlight and a box of Kleenex? (Well, maybe the details of the memory are a bit too specific, but the sentiment is universal.) Now you c
an get all lathered up with Lawrence on the Net's collection of banned books. The taboo tomes aren't all lascivious -- devotees of the suppressed press can page through Tom Paine's The Rights of Man and even fantasize about future evolutionary development
s while poring over Darwin's The Origin of Species.
INTERNET
- www http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/spok/banned-books.html
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The Gutenberg Project
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Remember that moveable-type Bible that changed the world? If you do, go see a doctor. You should be dead by now. The online Gutenberg has nothing to do with moveable type, but it aspires to another paradigm shift in the reading world, this time to electro
nic texts. With a goal of 10,000 texts by the year 2001, Gutenberg has already started to amass the great works of English-language literature, from Conrad to Conan Doyle. Get wired to get Gutenberg, and then get literary in a hurry. You'll love your comp
uter more than ever.
INTERNET
- www http://www.well.com/user/wcalvin/bkf1toc.html
- www http://www.well.com/
user/wcalvin/bkf2toc.html
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Project Bartleby
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Melville's Bartleby the scrivener, after a short and thwarted existence, died curled into a comma in the tombs, his negation absolute and mystifying. Columbia University's Project Bartleby, which bills itself as "The Public Library of the Internet," doesn
't want that to happen to you, and the directors of the project have begun to assemble an extensive collection of English-language classics, including the works of Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and William Wordsworth.
INTERNET
- www http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/index.html
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The WorldWideWeb Virtual Library: Literature
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One of the best places to begin exploring the virtual world of books. Before you do anything else, stop by the hypertext newsletter that tracks new Net lit sites and offers links to book-related topics. Online literary exhibits and a notable quote collect
ion furnish a pleasant diversion; does A. F. F. von Kotzebue's "There is another and a better world" refer to the Internet? And then there are the directories of links, which range across the Web in search of authors, awards, booksellers, libraries, refer
ence, poetry, publishers, and writing resources. If it's about the written word and it's out there, it's in here.
INTERNET
- www http://sunsite.unc.edu/ibic/IBIC-homepage.html
Copyright © 1995 Michael Wolff & Company, Inc.
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