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Sources for Books to Purchase
| Add-all - Out-of-print book search online. |
Alibris – Another source for online used-book searches. |
Amazon - Well. You know. |
| ABE Books - American Book Exchange. Our favorite source for out-of-print books. Compare the prices and conditions of the books from various vendors. |
Barnes and Noble - You know this one too. |
Bookfinder - Search for used books online. |
| British books - Might be used as an alternative to British Books in Print |
Eastern Book Company |
Half.com - A good source in eBay for books, both old and new. |
| Publishers’ catalogs online and searchable. Includes an option to leap into a Religion and Spirituality section. |
Spanish Language Books
Comparing Book Prices
| AddAll Book Search and Price Comparison. Links to many book price comparison sites |
AllBookStores.com |
| Textbookland |
| BestBookBuys |
Bibliofind |
| Rare Books - Try the Americana Exchange, a source for auction information over a long period of time which may be used to evaluate rare books. Requires a paid subscription (in 2005, $16 per month). The old standard source for this information has been American Book Prices Current. Another annual: the Bookman's Price Guide in print (not based on actual sales, but it gives you an idea what is being offered - same sort of information readily available on the web, of course). For sales in the past month, any registered eBay user may do a search, and some collectibles do sell there. |
Book Repairs
The Book
Craftsman - Quality work for a high price.
Full Texts of All Sorts of Books Online (eBooks)
| Alex Catalog: Powerful search capabilities; find not only the text of the book, but search the text for particular words; or search multiple texts for the same words simultaneously. |
Bibliomania - This site offers the full text on line of many useful works, mainly classics, conveniently divided into several groups by genre: Reference Books on Literature and Language; Over 120 novels; over 700 short stories; Nonfiction works; and Drama, poetry and ancient classics. All texts are in searchable html format. The novels include, for examples, works by Alcott, Austin, the Brontës, Joyce, and Lawrence. Reference works include Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Under Drama you will find the complete works of Shakespeare, Blake and Whitman, and some of the works of Dickens. Among Classics you will find the full searchable text of the King James Version of the Bible. |
| Books On-Line |
Christian ClassicsEthereal Library: One click access to basic Christian theology -- John Henry Newman, religious encyclopedias, whatever. |
E-books: In March 2000, offered more than 2,000 full texts of books for sale on line. For many titles, try Project Gutenberg (below) first, to get them free. Try here for best sellers. Includes some philosophy and religion titles. |
Internet Archive - A non-profit, multi-library project to provide enormous quantities of books free online. Other information media -- video, audio -- are also provided. |
The Internet Public Library |
Project Gutenberg: This may be the best deal on the web. As of September, 2003, they offer free for the downloading the complete text of 6,297 books, some theological but mostly literary.
These books are all out of copyright of course. Much useful information is included (e.g.,
Webster's dictionaries, the CIA Factbook, the 1990 Census). They're adding books every
month, aiming ultimately for at least 10,000 books. |
Hard-to-find books
Identifying leisure reading.
A web site which uses a database of the contents of all the libraries
in England. Fill in your preferences and receive a list of abstracts
of books which meet your criteria. An option is given to read
an excerpt from each book. To get the books if you're not in England,
you have to find a library that has it, or buy a copy.
The Master's
Seminary and Grace Community Church - They have a very nice online
ordering system.
Online Books and documents unpublished
elsewhere
The following websites allow you to publish, for a nominal monthly fee, anything
you want, or to buy direct anything published on their site, prices
set by authors, some of whom are well-known writers. Authors receive
part of the purchase price.
Universe
1st Books
Oxford classics
Academic Theses and Dissertations Online
Theses, Canadian - Provides not just an index to Canadian theses but many online texts. In the summer of 2005, a search for “religion” produced 1,144 theses. A narrower term, “eschatology,” produced a list of 36 theses, 9 of which were on line in PDF files. Among other things, at this site you may:
1. Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in Library and Archives Canada's theses collection, which was established in 1965;
2. Access and search for free the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002; and,
3. Find out everything you need to know about Theses Canada, including how to find a thesis, how our program works, information on copyright and much more. |
ACU National (Australian National University Library) offers many online resources including Australian dissertations.
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NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, listed by school. Many thesis texts are now online. |
TREN (Theological Research Exchange Network) -
A source for masters theses and dissertations, most in ministry and theology. We have found their service excellent and their prices quite reasonable. |
| ProQuest Digital Dissertations (formerly UMI Dissertations) - Provides free of charge only citations, abstracts, and some 22 pages of a sample from each dissertation they have listed in the most recent two years. You will pay for the full text. |
Theses Link Collection - Links to many schools and other sources which provide theses online. |
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