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  Here are some websites you will likely find very useful when you're tracking down information for your edits:
  
  Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
  Amazon (U.S. version) -- http://www.amazon.com/
  Amazon (UK version) -- http://www.amazon.co.uk/
  Library of Congress -- http://catalog.loc.gov/
  
  If you find any other sites useful, please list them here, so that others can benefit!

  Science-Fiction-Lover started this discussion 2 years ago. ( reply | permalink )

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  Science-Fiction-Lover 

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  Tim M posted:

  If you're looking for quotes for a book, I found an interesting source for them! If the book is available on the Kindle, then Amazon tracks everything that the users have highlighted, and you can view them from one of the Amazon sites.

  Here are a couple of examples... just type the book you're looking for in the search field:

  http://kindle.amazon.com/work/foundation-novels-isaac-asimov/B000AE22KC
  http://kindle.amazon.com/work/dune-40th-anniversary-chronicles-book/B000AW9E3M
  http://kindle.amazon.com/work/game-thrones-song-fire-book/B000ADFQ1A

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    littlechaosmonster 

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    Wikiquote also has many good quotes: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

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  Science-Fiction-Lover 

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  littlechaosmonster posted:

  I'm not sure where to put this, but for anyone cleaning up Orson Scott Card's work, for his older works, he's listed a few translations on his site: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/bibliography/index.shtml

  Asimov has this: http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/asimov_big_list.html
  It doesn't have translations, but one could check other editions.

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  Norman H 

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  I've found the Internet Speculative Fiction Database useful in tracking titles, alternate titles, and series by authors:
  http://www.isfdb.org

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  PhoenixFalls 

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  Cora R. posted:
  The Google Language tools are good for translating a web site to read a description. I have used this a lot in 1984 to identify some German study guides. http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en You can tell it the web address of the the page and the language you think it is and it will give you an English version of the page. Another tool is to just put a word or phrase in and it will translate it for you (you have to guess at the language).

  Another language site is TextCat Language Guesser (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/Demo/textcat.html). You can put in a title and it will tell you what language it is likely to be (it is not 100% right all of the time, but it gives you somewhere to start). I take its guess and then plug it into google and see what it says.

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