4chan Lit Recommended List of Reading

Recommended Reading: http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading Find here a list of recommended reading compiled by /lit/ users, please refrain from posting topics asking for recommendations until after you have checked this  link. It also contains a list of valuable links when looking for books, includi ng 'must read' book lists and the Western Canon. Free Electronic Books (Ebooks) Try the following websites for access to free ebooks: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page http://library.nu http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks http://ebookee.com/ http://manybooks.net/ Another resource available is #bookz, check these links for more information! irc: http://encyclopediadramat http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Bookz ica.com/Bookz irc.undenet.org#bookz If the book is not found on one of these resources then it is unlikely a free ebook version of it exists, try a simple Google search before posting here. Howev er it is unlikely a member of /lit/ will be able to help you if it is not listed  on one of these resources. E-Readers: Searching for the perfect E-Reader? For you or as a gift? Please search these websites: http://www.mobileread.com/ http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix for all the information currently available on E-readers If, after THOROUGHLY searching these sources, you still do not have the answer y ou're looking for then please feel free to post a thread here asking for help. H owever we will most likely not know the answer if it is not posted on the listed  sites. Converting ebook file formats: Okay now you have your ebooks you might want to convert them to a more e-reader friendly format. Most ebooks come in a .txt or /htm; format, the most e-reader f riendly format is .epub. We suggest converting all files to this format for the best results. The best tool for this is a free program called Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/ It also serves as a good way of cataloguing and sorting your ebooks. Literary Blogs and Online Magazines: Listed here are some interesting and varied blogs concerning literature. These a re regularly updated with fresh content, meaning you will rarely read the same t hing twice: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat http://www.bookslut.com/blog http://www.marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar http://www.complete-review.com/saloon http://www.maudnewton.com/blog http://www.lbc.typepad.com/blog

http://www.theoldhag.com http://www.readerville.com http://www.wordriot.org/ http://wordswithoutborders.org/ http://www.all-story.com/ http://www.undergroundvoices.com/ http://www.webdelsol.com/ http://www.threepennyreview.com/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/ http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/ http://www.thewriterseye.com/ http://web.me.com/christineyurick/Think_Journal/Home_Page.html http://www.theomnivore.co.uk/ http://www.pshares.org/ http://www.redchinamagazine.com/ http://www.irishpages.org/ http://www.ilrmagazine.net/ http://jacketmagazine.com/00/home.shtml http://www.theliteraryreview.org/ http://www.littlemag.com/security/index.html http://www.madhattersreview.com/ http://www.methree.net/ http://www.usm.edu/english/mississippireview.html http://www.narrativemagazine.com/ http://cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview/ http://nuvein.net/ http://www.pbq.drexel.edu/ http://www.theparisreview.org/ http://www.percontra.net/ http://www.pifmagazine.com/ http://www.bornmagazine.org/ http://bostonreview.net/ http://www.expatriateliterarycircle.com/ http://www.corpse.org/ http://www.failbetter.com/index.php http://www.geist.com/ http://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/ http://www.granta.com/ http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ http://www.anotherealm.com/ http://www.applevalleyreview.com/ http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/ Miscellaneous Links: Listed here are a selection of links pertaining to literature, mostly online res ources, they include free literature courses, online videos and lectures and muc h more. http://academicearth.org/ http://freevideolectures.com/ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/index.php http://hulk03.princeton.edu:8080/WebMedia/lectures/ http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/ http://conversations.berkeley.edu/ http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/ http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Browse