Intitle. Index.of Ebooks
2005-5-16 Web site Hotniss.com Tech Recipes posts a sample query using some clever Google-fu to find e-books on the web. For example, a search for books with 'For Dummies' in the title would look like this: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:'index of' +('/ebooks' '/book') +(chm pdf zip) +'For Dummies.
Gutenberg's Databasesearch
Search by Author or Title. For more guidance, see theAdvanced Search page,where you can specify language, topic and more.
Note that often enough you have links to computer generated audio books in mp3 format as well...
offline catalogs
recent books
(Publish your own stuff) |
The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish works as open archives, available free of charge to readers.
In today's world of corporate publishing, value is placed on works that sell to broad markets (read 'zombies'). Quick turnover, high-visibility marketing campaigns for often awful bestsellers, and corporate 'superstore' bookstores have all made it difficult for good, unique and older texts to be published. (Further, the costs this marketing adds to all books discourage people from leisure reading as a common practice, this is probably intended by the slavemasters.)
Thus publishers tend to encourage authors to write books with strong appeal to the current, undermining (not unknowingly) writings with longer-term implications.
The EServer (founded sixteen years ago, in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon as the English Server), attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities. The EServer is now based at Iowa State University. Today there are various 'free' hosting sites available on the Internet. Some of these, such as GeoCities or Tripod, generate profit by attaching awful advertising to the information that people post on their websites. Instead, every EServer member has an unquotaed private, personal space to store her/his work, without advertisement or popups.
Check also the Universal library for personal use
Wiretap
First of all, from the darkness of the past (I remember when the Internet was a large turtle with wings of gold), a complete GOPHER library: Wiretap.
For instance http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Classic/Vergil/, note that the books are in TeX format, so you'll need some savoir faire.
The WWW Virtual Library: The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by TimBerners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Unlikecommercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation ofvolunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas inwhich they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index ofthe web, the VL pages are widely recognised as beingamongst the highest-quality guides to particularsections of the web. British mirrorSwissmirror
TheUniversity of Pensylvania Online Books Page: offers a search by author or title, as well as links to many web sites that offer collections of full-text publications: see below under Searching books
ABU: laBibliothèqueUniverselle:
- Catalogue desTextes
http://www.google.com/u/bnfrhttp://www.bnf.fr: BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE (BnF) (through google)
Full text: most useful search mask.
Gallica
For instance: Rhetorique: just change the following URL accordingly:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/catalog.php?Sujet=%22Rhetorique%22Else here is the mask, rememebr to wait some seconds after having chosen a result: all books have been scanned.
Full text (scanned images), most useful search mask.
In parentheses: 'InParentheses is devoted to distributing texts, translations, andcommentaries from a wide variety of areas and disciplines in anelegantly presented form', mainlymedieval texts.
American Memory from the Library of Congress
Athena: authors and texts: thousands of full-text materials, many from other collections (such as Project Gutenberg) in several European languages. Links may point to website for collection instead of actual book.
The Bartleby project: limited collection of classic works of reference, poetry and literature.
DissertationAbstracts: Titles and abstracts from the most recent two years areavailable free of charge for most dissertations; older work requiresaccess through a subscribing institution
Electronic Editions: Books from the University of California Press. As an experiment, the UC press has placed online the full text of selected books on its list in International Studies, Classics, Literature, History, Anthropology, Politics, and Religious Studies. The site uses frames to prevent downloading the entire book, but the full text can be read online.
Electronic Texts on the Internet: A list of lists from RefDesk
The Internet Public Library(Michigan university)
IPL OnlineTexts collection 18,000 titles that can be browsed byauthor, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification. Recommended.
IPL Search engine (advanced): http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/sitesearch/?words=
National Archivesand Records Administration, this site is confusing to navigate, but has a rich collection of documents and images. The National Archival Information Locator is the search page. Try the homepage for additional information. The Archival Research Catalog is intended to replace this shortly.
Oxford Text Archive: Links to American Mirror for the OTA because the webmaster often has difficulty using the U.K connection. A large and intimidating listing of electronic texts via FTP. Not recommended for the computer challenged.
http://www.online-literature.com/: 'We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 300 full books and over 1000 short stories and poems by over 90 authors.'
Librarians' Index to the Internet(California)
http://lii.org/: a guide toInternet resources: a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than12,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librariansfor their usefulness to users of public libraries.
http://lii.org/advanced:advanced search mask, for instance:
doyle
Répertoire des bibliothèques de France (CCFR: Catalogue collectif de France)
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture: From Cornell: several hundred works covering all aspects of rural life and farming including nutrition, rural sociology, food preservation, and economic botany. Extremely well organized. Recommended.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts: Several hundred works from the 'western canon' with useful indexing and search tools. Recommended
Ancient Greek Sites on the WWW: Includes works by Plato, Socrates, Euripedes, etc.
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Full-text digital documents relating to Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Has lots of basic legal documents and charters with supporting documents
Bartleby Verse American & English Poetry: 1250–1920. Full-text versions of six classic poetry anthologies.
CIHM: Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions
Economic History Virtual Library (A-J)Economic History Virtual Library (K-Z)The Economic and Business History section of the WWW VirtualLibrary is maintained in Amsterdam by the Netherlands EconomicHistory Archive.
Archive of the History of Economic Thought: maintained by Rod Hay of McMaster University: a large full-text collection of classic works in economics and political theory. Not all listed works are accessible to public users. Also provides classic reviews and bibliographies.Recommended.
EuroDocs: Western European Documents: Links to many full-text collections of documents. Recommended
French Revolutionary pamphlets: From the Artfl project
Internet History Sourcebooks: By Paul Halsall at Fordham University. A large collection of primary texts and other materials, primarily collected for classroom use. Arranged in three groups, for Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, and many subgroups. Most links are to short selections from larger works, but there are also links to major websites such as the Galileo Project
InternetLibrary of Early Journals (ILEJ) Scanned pages from selectedyears of 6 British 18th. and 19th. Century journals: PhilosophicalTransactions, the Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, Blackwood'sEdinburgh Magazine, the Builder and the Annual Register. Partlysearchable.
The LiteraryGothic: In addition to a wide range of research aids, this siteoffers an extremely extensive collection of literary works. Easyto search alphabetically.
Medieval Manuscripts from The Digital Scriptorium: A test site containing images from the Bancroft Library, Columbia University and other libraries. Thousands of medieval manuscripts are catalogued, but the site is difficult to use. Read the search tips carefully. Manuscripts are stored as images, so they are slow to load. This site will probably involve a fee when completed, so try it now.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library from Berkeley. Searchable. Recommended.
Model Editions Partnership: experimental site offering editions of classic American papers including Documents of the First Federal Congress, the legal papers of Abraham Lincoln, and the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, as an exercise in the preparation of web editions of texts. Four of the editions are based on full-text searchable document transcriptions; two are based on document images; and one is based on both images and text.
Christian Books on the Web: Large collection of bibles and prayer books, Augustine, Loyola, Calvin, Law, Pascal. Bunyan, Foxe
Sacred and Religious Texts: From Bahai to Zoroastrian
Secular Web Historical Texts Library: electronic texts of authors such as Lucretius, Paine, Voltaire, Locke, Spinoza, Darwin, and Russell
(a tresure chest you'll never forget)
(University ofPensylvania's Digital Library)
Examples:
- Entering austen, jane inthe Author fieldfinds
books by Jane Austen. - Entering Baum in theAuthor field and
andoz
in the Title field finds L. Frank Baum's Oz books. - Entering dostoin the Author field,
choosing the Exact start of name option,andentering
underground in the Title field finds FyodorDostoevsky's
Notes fromthe Underground, even if you don't remember
how to spellmore than the start of theauthor's name!
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ Upenn's online books.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html Upenn's online books,search mask, the same reproduced above.
For instance: doyle.
(another tresure chest, especially for all palm & lit formats)
Carry your complete library in your pda!
(and many interesting languages collections)
Full text search: http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-ebooks?specfile=/texts/english/ebooks/ebooks.o2w
For instance: doyle
Compound searchmask
Finally: Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
(Catalan Danish Dutch Finnish French Galician German Greek Irish Italian Latin Norwegian Old Norse & Icelandic Portuguese Romanian Provençal Spanish Swedish)
[gateway access toLC's catalog] (and those at many other institutions)
How does it work? Explanation in german
QSUCHEhttp://www.bildungsserver.de/qsuche.html, try 'doyle'
ADVA Advanced search: http://www.bildungsserver.de/expsuche.html
TEXT Text search: http://www.bildungsserver.de/search/, for instance: doyle: note the difference with the 'qsuche' search mask above.
This mask is also known as 'Broker Abfragemaske': http://dbs.bbf.dipf.de/search/.
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
[http://www.xrefer.com/]
xrefer's contains encyclopedias, dictionaries,thesauri & books of quotations.All cross-referenced, all in one place
Another e-books search engine (search also 'in rapidshare'): http://cris.siteburg.com/books.php
[from the ~S~ Seekers' msgboard]
~S~ Jeff has given to the seekers community so much thatit would be hard to find something great enough to tank him, here,if you take the time to understand the following,a 'compendium' on 'how to find a book on theweb'.
In Title Index Of
Re: book search strategies?
'I am making this post after a search for:
Genius The Natural History of Creativity
written by
Dr. Hans Eysenck
Very poor results, but I did not try everything yet.
Suggestions for this or any book search?'sometimes 'too much' is 'too little'...
i begin with your words ...
Dr. Hans Eysenck 1910 returns
ok the guy is there ... what do I want? something written BYhim
'by Dr. HansEysenck' otoh only 3 returns
regroup-rethink ... too much is too little
by Hans Eysenck6,670 returns --- ok back on track now
filter alittle more ... Genius 512 ... and I see your full book title ... I could take adifferent path here now or keep on with this one ... I decide totake the Y in the road
is it online??? lets ask
'full text' 'Genius The Natural Historyof Creativity' returns 4
i only looked at the first return ... seems to indicate a fulltext ... asks for your proquest login ... ah so now we know how wecan get a full text Welcome
many ways to skin a cat ... problem is catchin it
jeff
A nice webbit:
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(“/ebooks” ”/book”) +(chm pdf zip) +”For Dummies”
Also, of course, -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:'index of' +('/ebooks' '/book') +(chm pdf zip) +'o'reilly'
Here the complete story of this webbit:
OReally Google Webbit (17/05/05 12:01:49)
FROM http://hotniss.com/page.php?id=233
Directions
Once you learn google search, you can find anything. Want some ebooks? Oh, yeah... google does that easily. Another power searching lesson coming right up.
Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:'index of' +('/ebooks' '/book') +(chm pdf zip)
What does all of this mean? The -inurl htm and -inul html is attempting to get rid of regular webpages and show just index pages. Looking for index of in the title is doing the same. Using the pipe ( ) tells google to look for something OR something else. Here were are telling google to look for book or ebook directories... and we have listed several common ebook formats (zip, pdf, chf).
Intitle Index Of Ebooks Download
If you would like to look for a particular author or title just tack it to the end of your search.
Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:'index of' +('/ebooks' '/book') +(chm pdf zip) +'o'reilly'
This uses the same idea but attempts to focus on directories that contain O'Reilly stuff. It's not perfect, but it's better than paying.
littlefish
Re: OReally Google Webbit (17/05/05 12:59:00)
let's clean this query, it looks like a mess. Does obfuscating the query makes it look more leet or what ? ;)
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:'index of' +('/ebooks' '/book') +(chm pdf zip) +'o'reilly'
could be written :
intitle:index.of ebooks book chm pdf zip o.reilly -ext:htm -ext:html
you don't need to put all those parenthesis or quotes. It basically produces the same result, with less thing to type..
and then you can optimize it a bit : rar and nfo files are good signals for a good ebook release. directories can also be named 'books', and scene ebook tagging usually put 'ebook' in the filename (remember that google has still some big fuzzy results concerning stemming, so stick to piping the different way to write a word). And finally, oreilly can be written without the space between 'o' and 'reilly'.
That finally results to this query :
intitle:index.of ebooks book books ebook chm pdf zip nfo rar o.reilly oreilly -ext:htm -ext:html -ext:asp
btw, i guess this webbit was already posted two or three time in our boards in the past 5 years, and was copied over and over ;)
loki
Re: Re: OReally Google Webbit (17/05/05 20:55:32)
> Does obfuscating the query makes it look more leet or what ? ;)
Probably... looks like the originator, AlexTheBeast, 'got a gift certificate, t-shirt, and mug for submitting such a great [webbit]'.
> btw, i guess this webbit was already posted two or three time in our boards in the
> past 5 years, and was copied over and over ;)
That was also what I figured - Rabbits.html says it was first posted at ~S~ in November 2002, and I recall using the technique in the 2002 summer, so.......... :)
littlefish
(and Lyrics) |
Nowadays almost forbidden, and anyway of course deprecated, since it does not bring any immediate profit, since it is hard to insert advertisements inside a poem (not that they wouldn't try, those clowns), and since, more generally, poetry does not significantly contribute to the holy zombification of humankind into brainless consumer automatons that the powers that be so fondly cherish.
One reason more to read poetry! Reading poetry you don't consume anything, you don't spend a dime (everything is on the web, duh), you don't watch a single crappish ad and at the same time you enrich yourself immensely. Like music, painting and playing, and maybe even more, poetry is worth all the hours invested in spades.
An added advantage: while reading poetry you can imagine the livid alarmed green faces of the advertisers and snake oil sellers...
'Sir! Sir! One slave has escaped'
'Yeah, I saw him reading Philip Larkin, he's already too far away, be more careful in the future'
...and enjoy your readings even more :-)
Note that this is more a proof of concept that a real list of poetry search engines. (Yet I'll add more :-)
Poetry and prose edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present. Electronic Index by Ian Lancashire
Search a verse at bartleby
http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/alphabetical/all: Alphabetical listing of poets featured on Poetry Connection
Anna Akhmatova: 'Where Stalin is, there is Freedom, Peace, and the grandeur of the earth'... sounds like a paid 'Anchorman' speaking for Bush (or Saddam, or whomever pays him... intellectuals -or clowns posing as intellectuals- are eo ipso prostitutes). And yet... Yet poets are not lowlife Anchormans, despite the many similarities.
Alas.. all real great poets were rather weak characters, he, never forget it, never condone it, read more poetry and enjoy...
Lyrics are not poems, but they may be interesting as well... Search a lyric at leoslyrics
| Search within song lyrics: |
(Commercial crappiness & some funny querystrings) |
http://books.google.com/books? Google 'print', for instance 'the symbolisms of heraldry'
http://a9.com/?q=: A9 search, for instance : 'the symbolisms of heraldry'
The Google Library Project is just a part of the broader Google Print initiative, which -according to google- intend to put books and their content 'where you can find it most easily: right in your Google search results.'
Google Print has another part, the Publisher Program, which presents full-text searches of *only* those books that have been authorized by publishers (confusely called 'public domain' books, and yet thousands of them).
All this is due to the ususal crappy patent/copyrights paranoia of our slavemasters.
Since users can see only a few pages at a time -see below- and cannot print them unless they re-scan the whole bazaar, publishers agreed that this would spur sales with no (or little) risks and no expenses whatsoever.
It is worth underlining that Google Library is not the publisher program.
This allows users to search and read the entire text of any work in the public domain, but, for patented books, it provides only short snippets of text with their collated context.
This is bad for global knowledge spreading, of course, but still good for seekers that need to gather good query arrows :-)
The Symbolisms of Heraldry or A Treatise on the Meanings and Derivations of Armorial Bearings
a.* e.* i.* o.* u.*
'the of to and a in is it you that he was for on are with as I his they be at one have this from or had by hot word but what some we can out other were all there when up use your how said an each she which do their time if will way about many then them write would like so these her long make thing see him two has look more day could go come did number sound no most people my over know water than call first who may down side been now find any new work part take get place made live where after back little only round man year came show every good me give our under'
see the snippets for all pages of a book