Questia provides an online library for students, teachers, instructors and lifelong learners. They have presence in over 200 countries. They have about 75,000 books, millions of newspaper and journal articles, available for users to access easily.Their comprehensive and powerful search tools allows users to search, browse, take notes and highlight information. Furthermore, they offer a specialized program for secondary schools to provide school grade lessons, materials and teaching plans.

Questia

Their slogan is "Great Books Online", so that you know what this site is all about. You will find one of the largest collections of references, quotes and most importantly books (fiction and non-fiction). Many publishers have placed their older titles on this site for public viewing and for free! You can search by author, subject or title. They hope to be the main reference site for students and academics for research purposes. And of course to enhance knowledge. You can also buy the physical books directly from Bartleby or download the digital version from Amazon. Sometimes having a physical copy is more convenient and practical.

Bartleby

Can't find a book which your friends recommend in your local bookstore? Your bookstore charges you an arm and a leg for a book which probably don't cost that much? Lost the leg to a bookstore and don't want to go there anymore? Well, you should check out BookFinder. They have over 150 million books in their database. That is a lot of books. Search and find the cheapest book out there. They have new, used, rare, out-of-print and even textbooks available. The best thing, you purchase the books directly from the seller. Thus there is no markup involved, saving you costs. Oh, by the way, the book sellers can be from overseas. I once found an out-of-print book which my local bookstore charges like 8 times the amount I eventually paid for. The nerve of these people.

BookFinder

Everything when I spot a German sounding nice, I get scared. Yes, I am scared of Germans. They are fierce with no sense of humour and have those piecing mustaches. But luckily for me, the German whose namesake is in the title is long dead and the founder of this site is an American. Project Gutenberg is all about free digital books. They claim to have the largest collection of ebooks on the Internet. At time of writing, they have over 33,000 books available for download. Search through their database or browse their various subjects to see which ebook interests you. Or if you want, you can download their collection into a DVD. All the books here are "digitalized" by numerous volunteers. I think this is a worthwhile project. Books are probably the best source of information and only by reading them can you gain that knowledge. Support their cause by donating.

Project Gutenberg

Your ultimate resource for books! AbeBooks offers their customers a list of publishers, retailers and collectors (aka booksellers) with a comprehensive book retail inventory. You will be able to search for new, used or even rare books online and find the best prices. Oh, they recently added the option of "used textbooks" as well. The difference with AbeBooks and other online bookstores is that although you buy from the booksellers, AbeBooks provides guarantee of the books listed on their site - so you can purchase with confidence.

AbeBooks

Book recommendation site. It allows users to keep track of the books they read and share their experiences. By allowing users to share their experiences with the books they have just read, the community can benefit and readers can recommend books to each other. Think of this as a social networking site for bookworms. If you have read a good book, then others about it! If you are a avid reader, you can even form a book club with others who share with your interests. They have 4.5 million users and have more than 120 million titles in their database. That is a lot of books read!

Good Reads

The Literature Network is a website especially meant for people looking for literature online. You can search through their database for books and short stories. They currently have about 1,200 full length books and 2000 short stories for your reading pleasure. They have over 250 authours in their database. Furthermore, they have over 8500 quotes available too. You can even browse through these books by author name. Their Books on CD can be purchased online and contains about 268 titles and it includes the Shakespeare's entire works.

The Literature Network

J.K. Rowling is the English authour of popular children's series "Harry Porter". The Harry Porter series has won many awards and sold millions of copies. The books have even been made into blockblaster movies. This is her official website and it contains some information on her and the Harry Porter series in particular. You can read up on the latest news on her next book, rumours and a very interesting FAQ. The FAQ provides some insights on the characters in the Harry Porter series if you are interested.

J.K. Rowling Official Site

AllReaders.com offers their viewers a very large collection of reviews of books. They carry reviews from all genres like sci-fiction, mystery to romance and history. Users on their site can read other people's reviews. You can also make use of their powerful search option to search for books via "plots", "settings" or by authors and titles to read reviews. Their reviews will provide a general outline of the story without giving too much away. This way, their readers can understand more about the books in question.

AllReaders.com

Yes, it is all about books here. If you are an writer, you can join their network to publish your works to millions of readers worldwide and get paid as well. Readers can browse through the archive, interact with authors, read and purchase books. In addition, authors can publish their books and set the price of their books as well as receive royalties. It is easy to start. The brilliant concept here is that it allows readers and authors to interact easly. Readers can get to know authors through face to face interactions.

AuthorsDen

Basically it allows users to read a book via email. Sign up and you can get a book of your choice and have it send to you via email where you can spend maybe like 5 to 10 minutes each day to read. Hey, we don't have the time to read books but we sure have time to emails right? So to encourage people to read more books, this is the best solution. They have a vast variety of books for you to choose from, all available for free. You can vary the size for each email, so if you are willing to spend longer to read the book via email, then just ask for bigger "installments". Check out their blog for more information.

DailyLit

Cricket Publishing Group publishes many award winning magazines and story books, especially for kids and children. They only publish high quality and interesting children's literature and uses beautiful illustrations to help visualize the story. Their publications include Babybug, Spider, Ask, Click and Cicada. All these are available for children of different ages. They also have magazines meant for science and history like Cobblestone, Calliope, Odyssey, Faces and many more. You can view their entire catalog of books and magazines online and even order them directly.

Cricket Publishing Group

Come on, we all know that kids nowadays don't care much about books and reading and all those boring stuff. With Youtube and whatever new social media thingy, they hardly even touch a book. But luckily, we have "Teens Read Too" to the rescue. It is actually a recommendation service which recommend good books for teens. Not just good books but something which teenagers would enjoy and find interesting to them. Well, that is probably true - kids nowadays do need a push when it comes to reading and what better way than to give them a good book. You will never encourage them to read by just piling books in their face and screaming at them. This way works better in my opinion.

Teens Read Too

Interesting - this is not a travel site but a travel writing site. Yes, you did not read wrongly - it is a travel WRITING site. So I guess it is all about writing on your travels and so on. I wonder how does that go for the author? Does he go around preaching about how you should write on the train or on the bus or something? But honestly, this site is a very good read. Check out the numerous travel tales he has written, some of which are extremely lively and fun. Finally someone who makes reading travel stories fun - you just wish you were there. And seeing the numerous locations he has been, he is probably a very rich guy. I mean I can't even afford a getaway to some nearby destinations, never mind India, Nepal, Mali, New Zealand, Ghana, Australia, French Polynesia and so on. You can also check out his photo gallery and be envious that some people have all the luck.

Mark Moxcon's Travel Writing Site

For people who read books. You might just be surprised that there are people out there who still read books but apparently the market is still very upbeat. One of the reasons is that the alternatives are just bad. Those whatever e-book readers are nothing but display sets which are uncomfortable to read and use. Fragile, needs power, expensive and many more shortcomings. Physical books on the other hand is comfort and you can read anywhere. Even when you are sitting on the toilet bowl. Anyway, this review of books is the self-proclaimed independent reviewer of literature and whatever. So you won't get biased opinions just independent ones. Which is great. I kind of hate reading a book recommended by someone, only to find it disappointing. Anyway, this publication has a very long history behind it, so you should take note the next time you want to purchase a fairy tale book.

The New York Review Of Books

It is all about new words here. Honestly I doubt that many of the words really exist in the real world but at the rate of how fast the world runs, I think they might have. Of course it is good to learn about new words, just that they might not be right. Okay, I admit it can be rather fun, especially for old folks like me who might never heard of "war-texting" or the "Ikea effect" or "data exhaust". Hey if you want to be a part of the modern world, this is the site to go. Learn new words, learn new things and even discover a whole new world out there. They keep archives of slightly older words as well, so if you are an old fart like me wanting to find the meaning of the words that the youngsters keep spewing out, just do a simple search and you will be enlightened, you old fart. Yes, we all feel old.

Word Spy

Something like Doctors Without Borders, just with literature in mind. So if you are interesting in reading and with literature and you don't really care where the author comes from (why should you in the first place), check out this site. Honestly, I love reading books and stories from other countries simply because they have a different view of the world from me. Sure, maybe I can't relate to some of their distinct points but we are all human, emotions and feeling are universal. And those authors of Words Without Borders are real writers, not half filled half drunken writer-wannabes like me. So yes, if you like reading and would like to open up your eyes to the world, take a look at this site. You might find yourself spending hours and hours here reading all the interesting short stories and poetry available. Every month they publish new works by international writers. Their purpose is to expose International readers to local authors, which I think is a great thing.

Words Without Borders