Places to Go...

There's one very good site I'd recommend enough to write a post about it:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

They have a short blurb about each author which includes known pen-names, a section of whatever's expected for release soon, and a main list of titles arranged by series. To the right side is a mosaic of book cover pictures.

Each picture or book title is linked to a separate page (if any) that goes a little more in-depth on that title.


And here's a short list of places to look for e-books:
Universary of Pennsylvania Online Books
Project Gutenberg
Brookings Institute Free Library
Electric Library
Internet Public Library
National Academy of Sciences Free Library
NetLibrary
MIT Free Course Library

I don't know much about the others, but Gutenberg has a massive amount of public-domain stuff, like the complete works of Mark Twain and Shakespeare. Everything's in plain-text.

Google recently started offering entire books and magazines available online:
http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp

Their interface is okay, but I seem to remember that it irritated me a few months back when I first checked it out. When you're still on dial-up in a high-speed world, it's easy to be irritated.