Some of our Favorite Web Links

Book Sites

The Book Trout- 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.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.

Booktrakker - Book database software for the professional bookseller.

 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.

Other Useful Sites

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.

The Crispy Cook - This is our blog for gluten-free cooking tips and recipes.