Literature & Language

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Academy of American Poets - Poems, poet biographies, teaching materials and National Poetry Month resources from the US poetry organisation.
Free eBooks - Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
Goodreads - Book cataloguing community where readers rate titles, write reviews and follow what friends are reading.
ibiblio.org - The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.
Internet Archive - Nonprofit digital library offering the Wayback Machine and archived books, audio and software
Literary Hub - Daily hub for essays, excerpts, interviews and book news gathered from publishers, magazines and bookshops.
Online Etymology Dictionary - Traces the origins and shifting meanings of English words, compiled from historical and philological sources.
Open Library - Open catalogue aiming for one page per published book, with controlled digital lending of scanned titles.
Poetry Foundation - Searchable archive of poems and poets, plus Poetry magazine, criticism, podcasts and classroom resources.
The Paris Review - Quarterly publishing fiction and poetry, best known for its long-running Writers at Work author interviews.
Wikipedia - Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
WordReference - Bilingual dictionaries and busy language forums where translators debate idiom, usage and tricky phrasing.