Some of our Favorite Web Links

Book Sites

http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/oldsaratogabooks/ - A listing of our current Ebay auctions. Old Saratoga Books typically sells box lots here, pruning our store shelves whenever they runneth over. Feel free to contact us by email if you would be interested in a bargain box of your favorite author or subject area and we will be happy to quote you a personalized selection.

http://booktrout.blogspot.com/ - The Book Trout is the blog for Old Saratoga Books, our musings on all things bookish and latest information about the shop and its surrounds.

http://www.mbs.org - The website of the Miniature Books Society, an informative website about books measuring three inches or less in every dimension.

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html - A comprehensive and scholarly listing of Internet resources in Literature, including literary indices, information on how to conduct literary research and even classic literature text archives.

http://bookinscriptions.com/ - A fun site highlighting the inscriptions people have made through the years in books they have given to others.

http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com - A wonderful resource for parents, teachers and storytellers, this site includes storytime ideas, crafts, fingerplays, book ideas for various kinds of juvenile readers and even has experts on hand to help sleuth long-forgotten childhood books.

http://www.bibliophilebullpen.blogspot.com - Check out this clever and often hilarious daily blog of bibliophilic tips, news, book reviews, jokes and information. Also for cat lovers.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~preserve/repair/repairindex.htm - Home of the Simple Book Repair Manual and a useful resource for keeping one's library healthy.

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/toc/toc1.html - A dictionary of book binding and book conservation terms.

http://www.nwpassages.com/bios/davies.asp/ - Rachel is a big fan of the late Robertson Davies' novels and literary writings and this site contains a detailed biography, bibliography and other information for the Daviesophile.

http://www.pinkwater.com/index.html - Every Jagareski likes Daniel Pinkwater's books, from his goofy picture books about polar bears and aliens to his adult essays. Here's his own site.

http://janbrett.com/index.html - Another OS Books favorite, Jan Brett, maintains a great website featuring her animal characters and many printable coloring sheets, craft projects and seasonal ideas to make reading her books even more fun.

http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/ - A great listing of educational, fun websites for kids compiled by the American Library Association.

http://www.trussel.com/f_booksx.htm - A bibliophile's dream website with innumerable links to book resources and the fabulous SetMaker Service, where book owners can search for missing volumes or try to sell their odd “widows and orphans”.

Regional Websites

http://www.nps.gov/sara/ - The official site of the Saratoga National Park, the site of the many Battles of Saratoga, the turning point of the American Revolution. The Park has a great Visitor's Center and gift shop and lies just down the road from Old Saratoga Books.

http://www.villageofschuylerville.org/ - The website for our hometown, the Village of Schuylerville, New York, with lots of local information and links.

http://www.saratogareads.org - Saratoga Reads is a community-based series of events and workshops celebrating various books which all Saratogians are encouraged to read. A fun site.

Other Useful Sites

babelfish - A handy site for translating a sentence or two of some of the world's most common languages.

http://complingone.georgetown.edu/~langid/ - While most people can probably eyeball a few foreign languages and figure out their origin, this website is a boon when the oddball Esperanto, Serbo-Croat or Swahili book comes along. You can cut and paste your unknown text into the site and in a few seconds, its database will determine the probable language of origin.

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/search.htm - If you are a North American reader and Anglophile, this translation of British slang expressions will prove invaluable.

http://www.xe.com/ucc/- This site will give an approximate value for currency conversion, which is helpful for ordering from international vendors.

http://wheat-free-meat-free.blogspot.com/ - This is our blog for vegetarian, gluten-free cooking tips and recipes.

http://www.last.fm/ - A great resource for listening to all kinds of music on the Internet. Like FM radio used to be, before all the musico-industrial-complex took over the airwaves.