Book buying and reading on the web

• Richard has an off and on again weblog about his days in the bookshop.
• Book Finder is a 'meta-search' engine, meaning that it searches other search engines, in its case book search engines. It is the single best way to look for books on the web. 
• World Book Dealer searches the stock of about 100 specialist and antiquarian dealers.
• Book Sale Finder lists book fairs & sales through the US and Canada.
• If you have a signed book & wondering if the author's signature is legit Author & Illustrator Signatures has over 500 sample specimens.
• Autographs & Address Related Web Sites lists sites devoted to autographs of diverse sort of folks including writers.
• You have to flip past a few screens of ads to see Book Tourists' listing of book readings and signings around the country.
• British & Irish Authors  Probably the best  place to go to find sites devoted to just about any English language author (the American author site is separate). Continually updated.
• Voice of the Shuttle "The Web Page for Humanities Research." A good site to start at if you are interested in the scholarly side of history, art, literature and anything else that might be considered a humane discipline. 
• Literary Resources on the Net Comprehensive but especially strong on the 18th century.
• Arts & Letters Daily is updated almost every day with fresh links to book reviews, essays, criticism, art, music, culture  -  you get the idea.
• Anthony Powell Resources Page Anthony Powell is best known for his twelve volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time."  Volume ten: Books Do Furnish A Room.
• Tudor History has chronologies, glossaries, genealogies, and text.
• The Internet Public Library has a large assortment of e-texts.
• Find Articles has a database of magazine articles.
• Bartleby has many texts including all 18 volumes of the Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
• YourDictionary is a better than average dictionary and thesaurus site.