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FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.

Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.

KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.

Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.

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MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.

Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.

Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.

The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.

Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.

Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.

ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.

Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.

Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.

Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.

Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.

2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.

Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.

Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.

Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.

Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.

TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.

Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.

Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

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Thank you, angel who made this.

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YOU GUYS THIS SO BEAUTIFUL I WANT TO CRY THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY. IT MAKES ME SO SO SO HAPPY.

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How I make my notes

So. This is a super-long post on my note-making process & tips!

1. Before the lecture

Read the lecture material before the lecture: our lecturers provide us with the syllabus plan for the semester so I have a general idea of what would be covered in the following lectures. I scan through the corresponding section in the textbook before the lecture so I have a general idea of what’s what. Some of the lecturers even put up the lecture slides beforehand- if so, I skim through them. If I have neither textbook nor slides, I do brief research on the internet.

I jot down key points and questions (around 5) onto a post-it as I skim through the material. I expand on these when I take notes in lectures.

This way I can have a general idea of what I can expect in the lectures.

2. During the lecture

NEVER MISS LECTURES! This is a temptation that is REALLY hard to resist, since they don’t take registers at lectures in our university. But even so, I always try to go to lectures because I know that if I don’t, I’ll probably have to spend double the amount of time to catch up with what was taught in the lecture.

The Cornell note-taking system. I’m sure a lot of you know about this system already. (template found here) I divide the pages in my notes into 3 sections per the template, like:

The note itself is taken in the RHS column. The LHS column is for questions and annotations later. The bottom rows are used for summarising. 

Keeping the post-it from pre-reading in mind, I take notes. How are the points being expanded? How are the questions being answered?

I try to reword what the lecturer says or what the slides say before I write them down. I need to concentrate very hard to not miss what the lecturer is saying.

In some lectures, I record the lecture using the Recordium app. (I record all my philosophy lectures, since the discussions tend to be chaotic and I miss important points quite often)

I summarise the content of the page into 2-3 points at the end of the lecture, and write them down in the bottom block.

I don’t use rulers or correction pens during note-taking at this stage. It’s not imperative that these notes are perfect, as long as they are legible. I’d rather spend my time writing down as much of what my lecturer has to say as possible.

3. After the lecture

I take a seat somewhere and open up my notes, and my textbook. I begin annotating on the LHS column using a different coloured pen.

On the LHS, I jot down 1. the points or questions from pre-reading that has been expanded or answered by the contents to the right, 2. questions or what I need to clarify on, 3. thoughts or comments.

I then read through the textbook and add in extra information into my notes - information that the lecturer brushed over too vaguely or too quickly, or something extra to help me understand the material better. 

If the lecturer did not mention it, chances are that it isn’t too important - so I tend to leave those materials out.

If there is something that I did not understand during the lecture, I try to understand it now. I read the part again, then read the textbook, then do some research on the internet. If I still don’t get it then, I go ask the professor or a tutor. Once I get it I write down why I didn’t get it before and how it makes sense now.

I read thru the notes once I am done annotating. I should have a full understanding of the material now!

The above process takes about 20 minutes for me.

4. Back from campus

Once I am back from campus, I find example problems related to the material taught in the lectures. Often these problems would be from the week’s tutorial problems. And then I try to solve them for practice.

 If I can’t get the answer, I go through my notes and try again. If I can’t get it eventually, I take it to a lecturer or tutor later.

5. Weekends

On weekends, I make my summary notes!

Now is the time for neatness and perfection. So I do a brief plan of my summary.

On a scrap piece of paper, I scribble the main headings and main concepts from the week’s lecture notes. This is the backbone of my summary. (excuse the terrible handwriting)

Now I move onto my summary book.

(I unfortunately forgot to take, and therefore don’t have, step-by-step photos of my summary… I will try to remember next weekend.)

So the general structure of my summary is:

1. Heading: I write down the chapter heading, or I just make up a heading that seems appropriate. Sometimes I skip this part.

2. Subheading: This serves as a header for the section, and also as a divider to separate the section from the rest. I sometimes use blocks and lines to separate the sections too.

3. Diagrams (and graphs): Graphs and diagrams often appear in engineering courses; I have to consider how to scale them so that they will fit onto the page appropriately.

4. Post-its: When I need to add in additional information or I’ve run out of space, I write the info on a post-it. It’s a great space-saver :)

The summary making process itself can be slow, and requires quite a bit of thinking.

I consider how much info I need to fit onto this one page. Sometimes the week’s mart

schooleaterial may take up half a page, or might need two pages. I put this into consideration as well.

Then I consider the size of the subsections relative to the whole. How much space will this section need on this page?

I write down the subheading and summarise the contents using the bullets below:

I use the same bullets for my lecture notes too.

I reword the sentences so that I can think about them as I write. I also tend to use a lot of abbreviations in the summary (eg. diff. for different).

Continue filling the page, section by section. Make sure the placing of the sections isn’t too monotonous, and also that sections are clearly separated from each other.

When I think I am going to run out of space, I choose what size post-it I will use and where I want to place it before I write on it.

Once done, I fill in blank spots by drawing in little decorations.

I use the STAEDLER triplus fineliners (20 col.) for the summary making.

If you have any questions regarding this post please inbox me! 

-Gia

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i have no explanation

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holy fuck please watch this whole thing

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People: are you ok?

Me: yea

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Dammit I forgot to bring my pineapple to class

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Fun fact: One time in my English class, this dude walks in like 10 minutes late. He’s carrying a pineapple with him. I figure he needs it for something later on in the day so I don’t think anything of it. Well about 5 minutes after he sits down, this dude pulls out his pineapple, starts turning it around in his hands, stares at it, and STARTS EATING IT. SKIN AND EVERYTHING. I DIDNT EVEN KNOW PINEAPPLE SKIN WAS EDIBLE. I don’t think I had ever been more confused in my life. I wish I still had the picture I took of it saved on my phone.

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Oklahoma is a strange state

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You have no idea

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Reading that was an experience

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i found the pictures

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OH MY GOD

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there are some stories on tumblr that are too weird or extreme sounding to be true. Sometimes there’s like, one picture, which could be something else out of context with an elaborate story tacked on.

but then there’s this shit and. there’s just. there is absolutely no way for there to be any contest over whether or not that man actually came to school and ate a whole pineapple. There it is. There he goes. There’s no way for anyone to argue this. That boy honest to god is just eating a fucking pineapple at school.

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@fangirf

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accent marks and italics can make any word look beautiful

bonèr

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Chlàmydîa

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gęńìtãl thüñdērštørm

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the scariest president had to be Rushmore because he had four heads

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it’s a good thing we captured him in that mountain even if we have to live in fear of the spell wearing off :/

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DIY Cereal Bowl Cake

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@captain-bucky-rogers

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@knot-ur-babe okay im gonna explode this is too much for me

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marry someone who has a different favorite cereal than u so they wont eat all of urs

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@captain-bucky-rogers

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@knot-ur-babe babe ill never eat all your cereal

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if there’s a chance that your actions may lead to galaxy-wide fuck-up, it’s best to just die first and avoid the consequences

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I’ve been waiting for this..

1968 Olympic Black Power Salute. 

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always reblog

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Now we talking!

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Historic.

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they got their medals taken away because of this and they dont give a shit and lets not forget the aussie in the green he had a pin on him in favor of equal rights like everyone up there stood for peace ths shit is iconic

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Our struggle.

[incaseyuhnevaknow]

The Olympics is supposed to be a wonderful thing, but two Black athletes had their fairly won medals taken away from them because they used their podium moment to peacefully protest the segregation and genocide of their people in the nation they were representing.

Think on that.

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Always reblog. Always.

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This must be reblogged always!

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I LOVE PROGRAMMING

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at the club

me: hey are you drinking hennesey 

hot girls: what? me: cause you’re the only hens I see

hot girls: what? me slightly louder: cause you’re the only hens I see 

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These glasses make the lights look like snowman

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use these to stare at the sun

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Please do NOT use these to stare at the sun.

Nobody needs a Super Sayan Frosty.