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New Books
But there are other options for new books, and other services important to readers. Try the following for something a little different:
For used or rare books ranging in price from $1 to $75,000, the following search services will display the catalogs of thousands of second-hand and antiquarian booksellers (searchable by author, title, and keyword):
Don't know what to read next? Misplaced your copy of The Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman, or How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler? Have a look at the following for good advice and plenty of guidance and suggestions. Each of the big, online book sellers provides lots of information about best sellers, current fiction and non-fiction, and literary and non-fiction prize winners. They want to sell the books, of course, but the reviews and reading tips are well worth a visit to the sites: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Borders. Equally commercial, but much more congenial to the academic reader, is the WWW site of the Harvard Book Store. The HBS offers reviews, reading lists, interviews with authors, and background information on a very large number current fiction and non-fiction titles. It is a pleasure just to browse the site for this reason alone. But what is most worth reading? For that matter, what is most worth knowing? These questions have occupied students, teachers, and just about everybody else for centuries. One approach, still popular but often criticized and modified, is through the great books. This usually means the books included in the famous Great Books of the Western World set, published initially in 54 volumes in 1952 by the Encyclopedia Britannica. But the list has since been expanded, and all kinds of non-Western works added by critics of the original concept. Several Internet sites are devoted to the great books, mostly in the traditional form. The Great Books Foundation, established in 1947 and the originator of the Great Books set, still exits to sponsor reading and discussion groups on the titles in the series.
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