Wikipedia - a comprehensive web-based encyclopedia "that anyone can edit."
Papers Past - National Library of New Zealand
AstoJs Online - New Zealand Parliamentary papers
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre - includes the fifty volume Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War
OUR Archive for online theses from the University of Otago Library.
Early New Zealand Books - from the University of Auckland
Encyclopedia of New Zealand - new edition being published on the web (site also has the 1966 edition)
Trove - National Library of Australia
Reddit - login and vote to help it learn what you are interested in reading
Slashdot - "news for nerds"
Project Gutenberg - free eBooks
Five Books NEW
I have listed many of the magazine sites that I visit elsewhere but other magazine sites of interest include:
The following online book shops are useful for information about new book releases:
Waterstone's Bookstore in the UK
Blackwell's in Oxford, England
Hatchards in London, England
WH Smith in the UK
Foyles in London, England
Rare Aviation Books in Sydney, Australia
Amazon.com in the USA
Barnes & Noble in the USA
Amazon.com.au in Australia
Dymocks in Sydney, Australia
Abbey's Bookshop great for history books and detective novels in Sydney, Australia
The bookshop I frequented most often in Wellington was Capital Books in Featherston Street but sadly it closed at the end of August 2014. It sold a good range of aviation books. Another good Wellington bookshop, Parsons, also closed leaving Unity Books as the best remaining one.
The following sites can be used for tracking down out-of-print books:
Hard to Find Books - in New Zealand
The following publishers' sites are interesting:
Penguin - in New Zealand
Dorling Kindersley - publishes the Eyewitness Travel Guides
HarperCollins - in the UK
Hachette - in New Zealand
Edward Elgar NEW
Dummies.com - part of Wiley
InformIT - includes online computer texts but you must register
Orion - includes Phoenix Press for history book reprints
The Crowood Press - including Airlife
The Whangarei Libraries including catalogue access.
The Hocken Collections part of the University of Otago Library in Dunedin.
The National Aerospace Library in the UK (access is one of the benefits of being a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society).
ICAO ELibrary in Canada.
WorldCat describes itself as the world's largest library catalogue.
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Last updated on 4 September 2023