Amazon.com Review
As the Web's body of content continues to expand and diversify, intelligent advice on where to look for the information or entertainment that you want becomes more valuable. The latest version of Harley Hahn's Internet & Web Yellow Pages perpetuates the author's reputation for giving good pointers on thousands of subjects. This book is great for browsing (did you know that there are four whole domains that are devoted to the subject of crop circles?), as well as for directed research. You might find that you have better luck scanning the subject-grouped listings than using an online search engine or subject tree.

The usual approach to a topic (daguerreotype photography, pagan holidays, yoga, stolen motorcycles, you name it) is to give you a couple of paragraphs on the subject and present a list of URLs that deal with it further. Hahn's writing is more cute than informative, but that's largely the reason that it's so much fun to browse this volume with no particular goal in mind. Hahn can be funny: he credits Eve, of biblical fame, with the first quotable quote ("Are you really going to wear that?"). The book would be better, however, if he had annotated the lists of URLs and Usenet references more completely; telling the reader, for example, what distinguishes the various Monty Python sites from one another, and how the five listed opera sites compare. --David Wall

Topics covered: The contents of the Internet (Web sites, Usenet newsgroups, mailing lists, and some IRC channels), organized by subject. The subjects range from the utilitarian (telephone directories, package trackers) to the variously specialized (aromatherapy, adoption, puppetry, Middle English) to subjects that are so specialized as to verge on weird (rare seeds, symbolic and algebraic computation, hangover treatments). Read and enjoy.