High Street bookstores such as Borders, WaterStones or Barnes & Noble are great places to get books, however if you are looking for topic specific books then you need to go to specialized bookstores. Indie Store Finder is a bookstore locator that helps you find those indie bookstores anywhere in US. Just enter a zip [...]
MagMe is, as they mention, “an online service platform that provides a free distribution channel for digital publications.” This means that using this service you can read popular print magazines like National Geographic and MaximumPC in your browser, page by page. It offers a huge number of magazines in various categories like computers, lifestyle, fashion, [...]
If you are looking for downloadable audio books, ThoughtAudio.com is a good place to start. It lists lots of free full audio books. The collection consist of books from classic literature, history and philosophy, and includes well known titles such as The Call of the Wild, Sidhartha, Metamorphosis… etc. You can browse books, listen to them [...]
OpenLibrary is a comprehensive book cover database that aims to profile every book ever published, including the translated versions. It already lists over 20 million published books in multiple languages, including full text for 1 million scanned books from public domain. You can search books by keywords and filter results by authors, subjects, publication date, [...]
If are not sure what book to read next try newly launched book suggester website BookSeer.com. You simply tell it what you have just read and it will recommend you some stuff to read. The recommended books data are pulled from from sites like Amazon and LibraryThing and nicely presented side by side. It also [...]
Biblio lets you search for used and hard to find books online from over 5500 independent bookstores worldwide. It has more than 50 Million used books listed in its database including rare collectible books, some which cost upwards of several thousand dollars. Just enter a book’s title, author or ISBN number into the search field and [...]
OurShelf is a nice cataloging application which lets you catalog all your personal items (CDs, DVDs, Books etc) online and share this information with others. You can add items to your shelf and organize them by different labels, borrow and lend items with your friends and create and share wishlists. Browse shelves of other users, [...]
Do you have the need to know a little bit more about a book before reading it? Do you want to know what people who read a particular book think about it and not just the self-acclaiming reviews published by the author? Ever wanted to share your thoughts about that book you found fascinating with [...]
BookArmy is a social networking site for book lovers. Whether you are an avid book fan or just want to read a good book on your holiday, here you get book recommendations based on your previous books and reading preferences. You can discuss and rate books, read user reviews and browse books suggested by other [...]
BeepMyStuff is another web app that lets you create personal library of movies, music, books and games without much effort. The cool thing about this tool is that you do not have to enter your items manually, but only scan item barcodes using your webcam. BeepMyStuff automatically checks each item on Amazon and adds it [...]