http://www.geocities.com/ocreaders/feed.xml OC Readers web site provides links to bestseller lists, book reviews, and book awards http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/ The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will be taking place at the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Saturday and Sunday April 24th and 25th. The festival opens to the public at 10:00 am on both dates. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:48:00 GMT http://www.literaryorange.org/ Literary Orange will be taking place Saturday, April 4th, 2009 at the UC Irvine Student Center. Registration opens January 5th, 2009. Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:36:00 GMT http://www.irishtimes.com/weekend/ Here's the book review section from the Irish Times. The Irish Times is based in Dublin and is one of Ireland's major newspapers. Tue, 31 Dec 2008 03:22:32 GMT Here's the book review section of the Los Angeles Times. Book reviews and bestseller lists are updated weekly. http://www.latimes.com/features/books/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:30:00 GMT The OC Readers web site is currently creating a growing list of links to full-text classic works (e-books) that are available via the Internet. The list is sorted alphabetically by author. http://delicious.com/ocreaders/author+classics?sort=alpha&order=asc Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:13:41 GMT This is the ABA's web site for its bestselling books lists. The American Booksellers Association (ABA) updates the lists on a weekly basis, and they are based upon sales at independent books stores. PDF versions of the weekly lists are available as well. http://bookweb.org/indiebound/bestsellers.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:23:30 GMT Read Orange County (ReadOC) provides literary services to the citizens of Orange County, California by providing tutoring services in reading and writing. The organization is associated with the OC Libraries system. http://www.readoc.org/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:04:03 GMT http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/ These are the state of California's recommended reading lists, and they provide a good starting point for students who wish to experience quality literature that has been selected to prod the reader to think and also enjoy. Works recommended by this web site should help students in their primary and secondary educations, and they should also lay a good foundation for further studies at the college or university level. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:10:00 GMT http://ocpl.lib.overdrive.com/ This is the OC Public Libraries collection of downloadable audiobooks. To listen, all you need is your OCPL library card, access to a PC computer, and an Internet connection. Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:40:20 GMT http://www.librivox.org/ Librivox is a non-profit web site that utilizes volunteers to record books and literature in the public domain. Access to the recorded audio-book collection is free. As of late July 2008, there were over 1,500 titles in the collection. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:06:30 GMT http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ The ICDL is a digital library of online books for children that is worth a good look. According to the web site, the goal of the ICDL foundation is to create a collection of books in multiple languages that are all freely available to the public via the Internet. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:26:04 GMT http://www.geocities.com/ocreaders/index.html A custom Google search has been added to the OC Readers web site that now allows users to search for public domain electronic books that are available via the Internet. Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:53:00 GMT http://www.geocities.com/ocreaders/authors.html A new section has been added to the OC Readers web site, and it will contain links to authors' web sites. English language writers from around the world will start the list, and it will be expanded in the near future to include authors who write in other languages. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:08:00 GMT http://www.geocities.com/ocreaders/bookreviews.html Quite a few additional links to bestseller web sites and book reviews have been added over the past couple of weeks. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:15:00 GMT http://www.geocities.com/ocreaders Welcome back! The OC Readers web site has been re-edited and updated as of June 18th, 2008. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT