"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov A couple of weeks late, but better late than never right? 10th of November was World Science Day for Peace and Development, hence this post,...
"I guess there are never enough books." - John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia Whichbook enables millions of combinations of factors and then suggests books which most closely match your needs. Out of 12 properties, you're allowed to open up to 4 of them,...
"No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is." - Corky Pollan CookFiction is a recipe library for foods that have been inspired by works of fiction. It's sort of like a Wikipedia for fictional foods. Are you...
"Books are best preserved in the minds of readers." - Kat Lowe, Dream Cat Distributed Proofreaders Canada (DPC) was founded in 2007 by Michael Shepard and David Jones to support the digitization of Public Domain books. Their inspiration was Distributed Proofreaders...
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." - Robert Frost You can read online the complete text of books that have won major literary prizes, like the Newbery Award, the Nobel Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize....
"The problem with ebooks is you can’t get booger smears on the pages." - Jarod Kintz Digitized versions from dozens of various sources, ranging from J. Rosenwald, Jay I. Kislak, Sir Francis Drake, Thomas Jefferson to science and gastronomy books. Many more genres and...
"I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood." - Peter Watts, Blindsight 4 full novels and 21 short stories for your reading pleasure. The novels are available for online reading only (HTML) but the rest are available in PDF, including commentaries and...
"The charm of horror only tempts the strong." - Jean Lorrain NoSleep is a Reddit community for original horror stories. Stories may be true or not (but they are usually not). While most of their stories are fiction, they treat all stories like true, real life...
"When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes." - Robin Sloan Enjoy these free downloadable free audiobooks by Scott Sigler,...