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The top ranked sites in each category.
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subdirectories, not for entire sites. For example, in the Reference > Maps
section you'll find mapquest.com (an entire site about maps) and
maps.yahoo.com (one section about maps on a larger site).
For this reason, the listings in the Top Sites by Category are ordered by
Popularity of this listing, and not by the overall Traffic Rank of the site. We
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— a combination of users and page views — but apply it only to the
traffic for that specific listing. To find out the Traffic Rank of any site in
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Wired
wired.comAward-winning site about web technology and culture.... More
From the site: SO WIRED inside the US, +1 (515) 243 3273 outside the US mail Wired, PO Box 37706, Boone, IA 50037-0706 Foreign subscriptions payable by credit card, postal money order in US dollars, or check drawn on a US bank. ... Address: Wired, 520 Third Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107-1815 ... Wired (ISSN 1059-1028) is a publication of The Condé Nast Publications, a subsidiary of Advance Publications Inc. ... Read Wired magazine contributor Bruce Sterling's blog, Beyond the Beyond . ...
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Atlantic Online
theatlantic.comA regularly updated companion web site to the magazine Atlantic Monthly. Includes fiction, feat... Moreured articles and reviews.
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Boing Boing
boingboing.netWeblog about media, technology, and popular culture.... More
From the site: If you'd like to reach BoingBoing's "band manager" John Battelle about sponsoring, here's a link to his email.
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The New Yorker
newyorker.comOnline version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, sl... Moreide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925.
From the site: Stay up to date on everything happening at newyorker.com.
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Project Gutenberg
gutenberg.orgA library of 38,000 free epub books and free kindle books, whose copyright has expired in the U... More.S.A.
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SparkNotes.com
sparknotes.comStudy guides and discussion forums offered on various academic subjects. Literature section inc... Moreludes brief analyses of characters, themes and plots.
From the site: SparkNotes books and SparkNotes.com exist to help students learn and practice basic skills, write a paper, study for a test and achieve their academic goals. We believe that doing well in school and learning is its own reward, and that learning is more than just getting a diploma from a brand name college. Created by Harvard students for students everywhere and geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes study guides are the perfect aid for studying and writing papers. ...
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PaperBackSwap.com
paperbackswap.comSave Money. Swap Books. Our Online Book Club offers Free Books when you Trade with others membe... Morers for Free.
From the site: Below are some of the major features you might find useful here at PaperBackSwap.com. Some of the features are PaperBackSwap exclusives. 2,484,329 Books and growing daily - no other swapping site on the internet has this many books to choose from! Book Wrapper - The easiest way to mail your books hands down. No more copying down the address or calculating postage.
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Guardian Unlimited Books
guardian.co.uk/booksNews and reviews, critics, authors, first chapters, Top 10s, bestsellers, talk board and games.... More Offers special sections by genre and full archives.
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From WBEZ in Chicago - This American Life
thisamericanlife.orgFeatures many Sedaris bits in RealAudio.
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Internet Sacred Text Archive
sacred-texts.comOngoing project to publish etexts of the Oxford "Sacred Texts of the East"; online HTML; sales ... Moreof CD-ROM.
From the site: Views expressed at this site are solely those of specific authors, and are not endorsed by sacred-texts. Sacred-texts is not sponsored by any religious group or organzation . Sacred texts went live on March 9th, 1999. The traffic started to increase when sacred-texts was listed at Yahoo! under 'Society and Religion | ... In its first year of operation sacred-texts had about a quarter million hits. By 2004, it was receiving well over a quarter million hits per day. ...
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IMDB - "Game of Thrones" (2010)
imdb.com/title/tt0944947/The IMDB page for HBO's "Game of Thrones" television series, based on A Song of Ice Fire. Conta... Moreins information on cast and crew.
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Fantastic Fiction
fantasticfiction.co.ukBibliographical index of around 2000 science fiction and fantasy authors.... More
From the site: Authors C > John Colapinto > About the Author
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Arthur: The World's Most Famous Aardvark
pbskids.org/arthur/Developed with the help and advice of Arthur creator Marc Brown. Site is organized into pages h... Moreosted by the series' character. Activities encourage kids to read and write.
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Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency
mcsweeneys.netLiterary magazine edited by the author.... More
From the site: Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency are copyrighted, in the worldwide sense, and cannot be reprinted -- or even spoken about -- without the written approval of a McSweeney's representative. They will be standing at the exits, wearing red vests. ... Considering this is the web and all, we will try to keep things readably short. (Unless something needs to be longer, in which case that piece will be longer.) ... Those will be easily accessible at the bottom of the site's page.
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Arts and Letters Daily
aldaily.comDaily report of news in art and literature. Includes reviews of new books, essays and articles.
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LibriVox
librivox.orgExtensive collection of free audio books read by volunteers; the goal is to record every book i... Moren the public domain.
From the site: Home Page - Guides for Listeners & Volunteers (the LibriVox wiki) - Search the Catalog
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Online Etymology Dictionary
etymonline.comEnables lookup of etymologies of more than 30,000 modern English words. Useful for determining ... Morewhether a modern English word is descended from Old English.
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PoetryFoundation.org
poetryfoundation.orgThe Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization co... Moremmitted to a vigorous presence for poetry in American culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
From the site: PoetryFoundation.org is one of several efforts underway by the Poetry Foundation to strengthen the reciprocal relation between poetry and its audience. Harriet Monroe, who founded Poetry in 1912, wrote about this in her first editorial for the magazine: This art, like every other, is not a miracle of direct creation, but a reciprocal relation between the artist and his public. Every week, we hope that the news and articles we publish add to the growing public for poetry. ...
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The New York Review of Books
nybooks.comThe online version of the biweekly book review and journal of intellectual currents.... More
From the site: Please direct questions regarding this statement to web@nybooks.com . When does The New York Review of Books collect my personal information? The New York Review of Books gathers information from members and visitors via voluntary registration, cookie technology, and IP addresses. Registration : When you create an account on nybooks.com, we collect information that helps us identify you. At the initial registration screen we ask for your name, your email address, and a password. ...
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Free Ebooks
getfreeebooks.comDownload totally free constantly updated list of ebooks, with master resell and giveaway rights... More. Never pay a dime for quality internet ebooks anymore.
