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Electronic Literary Magazines |
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Hyperfiction/interactive fiction |
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Hyperfiction/interactive fiction |
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Hyperfiction/interactive fiction (serious stuff + tools) |
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Flemish/Dutch literary magazine |
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| De Gekooide Roos | Dutch literary magazine |
eBooks |
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Hundreds of books and texts to be searched online:
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| The Online Books Page | Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web |
Hundreds of copyright free English books and texts available for downloading |
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Hundreds of copyright free German books and texts available for downloading |
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| The New York Times Book Review | Every week, The New York Times on the Web brings you a new selection of first chapters from books reviewed in The New York Times Book Review or that appear on The New York Times bestseller lists (registration required) |
| eBook.nl | Download a few copyright free books in Dutch for Rocket eBook, SoftBook, MobiBook (Palm/CE), web browser, Acrobat Reader or MS Reader (registration required) |
| Memoware | A large collection of eBooks (from poetry to reference) in the DOC format for the Palm. DOC readers for other PDAs are available. |
| Electron Press | Purchase eBooks in PDF or Palm format or read free excerpts |
| fictionwise | Call themselves "the short fiction leader". Well stocked selection of eBooks in all common formats for sale. Occassional free offer. |
| eReader | eReader sells hundreds of fresh, new book titles in 'Peanut' format (works with Palm and Pocket PC) |
| Mobipocket | Company exclusive for eBooks. Developers of Mobipocket format and reader which is available for most PDAs. Will also provide eNews using a subscripton system as AvantGo. Site and books available in English, French, German and Italian. |
| Laurens Janszoon Coster | Project Laurens Jansz. Coster: Dutch literary classics, royalty free |
Dictionaries, etcetera |
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| Encyclopædia Britannica | Once too expensive, once almost dead, but now better than ever for the cost of two novels a year |
References to many dictionaries and word lists |
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An excellent source for terminology used in the IT industry |
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The Webster online |
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Find all acronyms |
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| The Translator's Home Companion | Links to dictionaries and glossaries sorted by language, and to services, tools, etc |
| refdesk | A single source for facts on the Net |
| Online Dictionary Query | Want to look up the definition of a word? The DICT Development Group offers a form on its site in which your query is rapidly checked against a number of sources including WorldNet's Lexical Database, the CIA World Factbook and Webster's 1913 Revised Unabridged. You can directly search from here: |
| Verbix | Grammar, conjugation, inflection, bilingual glossaries and more. |
| Evenwaardig Nederlands | Dick van Zijderveld composes a list of English words and phrases often used in Dutch along with the Dutch equivalents that he thinks should be used instead. |
| WordNet | The impressive WordNet English thesaurus project from Princeton University. WordNet is available for download (free) |
| Treasure Troves | Eric Weisstein's Treasure Troves of Science. Strictly speaking not a wordy site, but we include it because searching for "words" generates enough interesting hits. |
Literature |
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Roadmap to Dutch and Flemish literature |
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Archives, online texts and discussions deriving from university of Buffalo |
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On the Dutch language |
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Interesting site on the Dutch language but not recently maintained |
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Language and Linguistics |
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Links to online language lessons, translating dictionaries and programs to aid you in learning a language |
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Statistics |
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A study into how many words we process annually |
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Recreational linguistics (logology) |
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| In the Netherlands the field of "recreational linguistics" is dominated by one man: Hugo Brandt Corstius, aka Battus, aka a lot of other pseudonyms. The field is called Opperlands, after the famous Opperlandse Taal & Letterkunde published in 1981. More information can be found on our Dutch website, in the section Opperlands. | |
| Word Ways | The website of the printed Word Ways magazine edited by Ross Eckler. Unfortunately, not very many articles from the magazine are published in full on this site. |
| Alan Cooper's Homonyms | English homonym collection |
| A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia | With examples from several languages. Created and maintained by Jeff Miller. |
John Zingman's contribution to recreational linguistics |
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