- 100 Words - Contributing authors write poems, stories, diaries, fiction, and nonsense. All entries are 100 words in length. (featured in Mar 2002)
- 4000 Years of Miniature Books - Collection includes thumb bibles, mini libraries, almanacs and calendars, and volumes from the Near and Far East. (featured in Jan 2004)
- American Women's Dime Novel Project - Examines the 19th-century genre of women's dime novel writing. (featured in Apr 2006)
- American Writers - Series which looks at the lives and works of selected American writers who have chronicled, reflected upon, or influenced the course of the nation. From C-SPAN. (featured in June 2001)
- Aspects of the Victorian Book - Online exhibition from The British Library devoted to Victorian books and magazines. (featured in Nov 2001)
- Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - An annual bad writing competition challenging entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Includes winning submissions from the past. (featured in July 2003)
- CaliforniaAuthors.com - News and promotion site for California and West Coast authors, writers, publishers, booksellers and readers. (featured in June 2003)
- Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project - Online library of antique children's books which were published in the 19th and early 20th century. (featured in July 2004)
- Collins Library, The - Daily selection of excerpts from old books, magazines, and newspapers. (featured in Apr 2002)
- Covers - Dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design. (featured in Apr 2006)
- Criminals from the Neck Up - Collaboration of short stories so dark and haunting, they should be against the law. (featured in Mar 2002)
- Eye on Books - Audio interviews with major authors, plus tips from bestselling writers, and a photo gallery. (featured in Jan 2003)
- Ficlets - Sharing shorter than short stories with the world. (featured in Apr 2007)
- Fifty Word Fiction - Submit a short-short story of 50 words and watch it appear on the screen, as if by magic. (featured in July 2005)
- Fresh Yarn - Online salon for personal essays. (featured in June 2004)
- Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog - Blogging with the most fresshe and newe postes. (featured in May 2006)
- Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center, The - University of Texas, Austin is home to one of 21 complete existing copies of The Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed with movable type. Page through the digital version of this 1454-55 edition or learn about the early history of printing in Europe. (featured in July 2003)
- Hardy-Boys.com - Offers a message board, newsletter, cover pictures, information, character bios, and more for all the different book and television series featuring the Hardy Boys. (featured in Aug 2005)
- Kelly Writers House - A center for writers of all kinds and from all disciplines. Hosts public programs and projects including webcasts of poetry readings and conversations with contemporary writers. (featured in Nov 2000)
- Leaves of Gold - A look at treasures of manuscript illumination from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (featured in May 2001)
- Miss Snark, the Literary Agent - Blog in which Miss Snark vents her wrath on the hapless world of writers and crushes them to sand beneath her T.Rexual heels of stiletto snark. (featured in Jan 2006)
- Napkin Fiction Project, The - Esquire magazine mailed 250 white cocktail napkins to fiction writers across the U.S. This is what they got back. (featured in Feb 2007)
- Neurotic Poets - Exploration of madness and creativity in the lives of famous poets. Includes biographical sketches discussing their work in context. (featured in Feb 2003)
- oneword - Presents writers with a word a day and gives them sixty seconds to write thoughts on the given word. (featured in Jan 2003)
- Paper Cuts - Blog about books from The New York Times Book Review. (featured in June 2007)
- Pop-up and Movable Books: A Tour Through Their History - From the 19th century to the present. Features examples from the Weaver Collection, University of North Texas. (featured in Apr 2005)
- Private Passions, Public Legacy: Paul Mellon's Personal Library - Exhibit of rare books, manuscripts, and maps from the personal library of the noted Virginia philanthropist. (featured in Apr 2001)
- Schøyen Collection, The - Large collection of ancient and rare manuscripts. (featured in Sep 2002)
- Slant - Bimonthly online magazine publishing essays, memoirs, reviews, interviews, poems, and fiction. (featured in Apr 2003)
- Sorted Books Project - Photo project from Nina Katchadourian in which she "clusters" books so that their titles run into a sentence -- or several. (featured in June 2007)
- Sunday Scribblings - Weekly writing prompts for wordsmiths of any level. (featured in July 2006)
- Tales from the Vault - Online exhibit of of Canadian pulp fiction, pulp cover art, and the history of pulp literature in Canada throughout the 1940s and 1950s. From the Library and Archives of Canada, in English and French. (featured in Sep 2005)
- The Bat Segundo Show - Literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with writers, comic book artists, and humorists. Stars one unemployed philosopher and a young, roving correspondent. (featured in July 2006)
- Today in Literature - A calendar of engaging stories about the great books, writers, and events in literary history. Daily articles are supplemented with links to author biographies, texts, reviews, and other reference materials. (featured in Oct 2003)
- Turning the Pages - Interactive display system from The British Library allows users to look at the actual pages from rare manuscripts. (featured in Aug 2002)
- War of the Worlds eComic - Illustrated version of War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. From Dark Horse Comics. Adapted and abridged by Ian Edginton. Art by D'Israeli. (featured in July 2005)
- Whichbook.net - Offering book choices that stem from the reader rather than from the overwhelming choice of books available. Choose a book to match your mood. (featured in Sep 2003)
- Zak Smith's Illustrations For Each Page of Gravity's Rainbow - Drawings, paintings, and photographs illustrate the novel by Thomas Pynchon. (featured in June 2005)
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