Sources of Significant Texts
compiled by Ric Carter
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Many Text Sources

  • ALex Texts: UK/US Literature & Philosophy
  • Book­spot-Full­text - similar classics
  • Books & Banned Books at U.Penn Library
  • BlackMask: many ebooks old and new
  • EnglishServer: infinite accessible writings
  • FAQ Archives (and find more FAQs)
  • Forbidden Library: more banned books
  • FullBooks: thousands of old books & mags
  • GPO (GovtPrintOfc) and LoC (LibOfCongress)
  • Harvest­Fields - nearly everything!
  • HyperTexts - classic US lit at U.Virginia
  • Literature at Yahoo and Google
  • Literature at Dmoz and WikiPedia
  • The Modern Word: newer literatures
  • Project Gutenberg: myriads of documents
  • Read The F*ckin Manual pinhead!
  • TextFiles: the whole world in ASCII
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      — SPECIALIZED —
  • Alternative History and Theories
  • History SourceBooks at Fordham.U:
    Ancient, Medieval, Modern, African, East Asian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, LGBT, Women's, Global, Science
  • Invis­ible­Lib­rary - nothing is real
  • t'CotO: the Church of the Otters
  • totse: Temple of the Screaming Electron
  • Folklore at Yahoo and Google
  • Folklore at Dmoz and WikiPedia
  • Lahmfada: links on Myth and Story
  • HolyTexts at eText.Org
      and at Sacred-Texts.Com
      and at DavidWiley.Com
      and at BlackMask.Com
      and at Dmoz.Org too
    and see Biblical Resources below

    • Some Textual Tools

    LookItUp
    Acronomizer - Acronym Finder
    AIEEE - Acronym Interaction, Expansion & Extrapolation Engine
    BabelFish - multi-language translator
    Buzzwords - jargon and disinfo
    Cthuugle - Lovecraftian search engine
    Dictionary.Com and HyperDictionary - look it up
    Dictionaries & Encyclopedias - large index
    Digital Librarian - a librarian's choice
    Etymology Online - site gone - search
    Google: Labs and Syntax and Blog - seminars in searching
    Googlism - what does anything mean?
    Information - googling for goodies galore
    Jahsonic.Com - a vocabulary of culture
    Language Maker - the art of making languages
    Librarian.Net - putting the rarin' back in librarian
    MemePool Linguistics - all the greatest hits
    OmniGlot and Ancient Scripts - writing systems
    PhraseFinder - all about phrases, sayings, cliches & quotes
    Reference Library - a comprehensive search
    Signs & Symbols - another super search
    Dmoz.Org - The Open Directory Project (portal)
    VLib.Org - The WWW Virtual Library (comprehensive?)
    WikiPedia.Org - the compelte online encyclopedia
    WayBackMachine and Archive.Org - WWWeb as it was
    TheMemoryHole and Cryptome - uneasy govt docs

    Some Slang Sources

    SpitItOut
    Mostly Stolen from Ye Olde English Sayings:
    1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
    American Thesaurus of Slang
    AmeriSpeak Expressions of Our American Ancestors
    BritSpeak English as a Second Language for Americans
    Business Buylines Advertising Cliches
    Dave's List of Words that are Fun to Say
    Deanna's Ye Olde Wives Tales Page!
    Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
    Dictionary of Slang by JM Duckworth
    Galaxy Colloquialisms & Slang
    Jesse's Word of the Day
    Outrageous Aussie Sayings
    Quinn's Devious Dictionary by Lee Daniel Quinn
    The Racial Slur Database
    Rob Kabacoff's Shakespearian Insults
    Steve Sabram's Silicon Valley Slang
    Visual Thesaurus
    Word Du Jour by Tim Bottorff
    Princeton's Word Net a Lexical Database for English
    A Word With You
    World Wide Words by Michael Quinion
    Yahoo's Reference/Quotations

    SoakItUp
    Words! Words! Words!   I'm so sick of words!
    I get words all day thru; First from him, now from you!
    Is that all you buggers can do? —Eliza Doolittle

    Acquiring Books

    AbeBooks - AddAll - AllDiscountBooks - Amazon Lite - BookFinder - (Bookstores) - City Lights - (Cheap Books & Free Books & Old Books & Used Books) - DirectTextbook - Granta - PriceNoia

    Learning More

    Biblical Resources

  • Gospel of Thomas: homepage & search
  • Ante-Nicene Fathers: index & search
  • History Sources: Jewish & Christian
  • Mysticism & Comparative Religion
  • Non-Canonical Scriptures
  • Early Christian Writings   (& more)
  • BibleVersions.Com   (& more)
  • Gnostic Scriptures   (& search)
  • Jesus Mysteries links
  • Apocalyptic Literature
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  • The Nag Hammadi Library
  • Gnostic Resources
  • 'Dead Sea Scrolls' search
  • Christian Resources & Christianity
  • EarlyGospels.Net & PBS.Org
  • Church of the East
  • EsotericArchives.Com
  • Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
  • Comparing Bible Translations
  • Polari Bible (cf. Polari)
  • Historical Jesus FAQ
  • DEAD SEA SCROLLS DECEPTION
  • Early Xian etexts: theories
  • Jesus The Jew
  • Historical Jesus
  • Bible Interpretation: articles
  • Origins Of Christianity
  • Jesus Seminar & SimJesu
  • Jesus Was GOTHer Than You *
  • Pagan Christs *
    • KnowItAll
  • Skeptic's Annotated Bible / Quran (Koran) / Book of Mormon / Dianetics


  • Bible: Books & Commentaries *
  • Christian End-Time Expectations [FAS] *
  • [Torah]Codes hidden within the Bible *
  • Cycles in the Universe index *
  • Ecclesiology: A Study in Church History *
  • Encyclopedia Mystica *
  • ENOCH *
  • The Gnosis Archive *
  • Flood Stories From Around The World *
  • Religious Definitions
  • Jewish Torah Audio of 613.org *
  • Judaism - History *
  • Come-And-Hear: Talmud/Study*
  • PROPHECY CENTRAL *
  • Sea Of Faith Network *
  • The Way - Spirituality Links *
  • Stanford Metaphysics Lab *
  • Temple of the True Inner Light *
  • The Last Church * *
  • The Witching Hours *
  • Temple Of Pleasant Fabrics *
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