– Google Books

– Internet Archive’s Text Archive

– Phoenix Public Library

– VNSA Used Book Sale

– LibraryThing



– Better Living through Beowulf by Robin Bates

– The Quote Investigator by Garson O'Toole

– Open Source Shakespeare

– Mark Twain Quotes by Barbara Schmidt

– Founders Online by U.S. National Archives



– Merriam-Webster

– Encyclopædia Britannica

– TimeAndDate.com



– FileLocator Pro by Mythicsoft, file searching

– Notepad++, source code editor & notepad

– ReNamer by Denis Kozlov, file renaming

– Alarmed by David Mandell, reminders

– Iris by Daniel Georgiev, eye protection software



– Good News Movement by Michelle Figueroa

– Trader Joe's, neighborhood grocery stores

– The Lincoln Project, protecting democracy

– Acopian BirdSavers, save birds from windows

– International Dark-Sky Association

– Save Our Saguaros!

– Food Not Lawns by Heather Jo Flores

– The Urban Farm by Greg Peterson

– Environmental Working Group

– Mozilla and Firefox, internet & privacy advocates

– PolitiFact, independent fact-checking



– Robert Brault

– Michael P. Garofalo

– My anonymous encyclopedic proofreader

– Janice, typo hunter & beautiful smile giver

– Steve, Grand Slam Computing

– Nathaniel Hawthorne, who hooked me on quotations

– My family & supporters, you guys are the best!