Just what we all need! Another time waster….
I’ll bet we all have one–a website that we come back to time and time again when we are bored, or sleepless, or plotting a new novel. Maybe for you it is Facebook or Twitter. 
Or Pinterest (very cute baby and puppy video on it last night). I’ve been known to stay up late watching Britain’s Got Talent videos on YouTube and discovered a truly marvelous male singer on Australia’s Got Talent (Mark Vincent who won that competition in 2009)
I’ve also become lost in research books on Google Books or searching for antique prints or jewelry on Ebay. We won’t speak about ICanHasCheeseburger, also known as LOL Cats…
Some favorite Regency or Historical sites to kill time: Georgian Index, The Regency Encyclopedia (try this Regency Paper Doll interactive site), and Jane Austen’s World.
Of course, I call browsing on those sites “Research.”
I call browsing through Macys.com or Amazon or Lenox.com, shopping, but when I’m lost in those sites, it really is wasting time. My friend Mary Blayney frequents Shoe of the Day.
This week, however, my dh sent me a link to another great time-wasting site: Retronaut, filled with photographs and images dating back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. It has all sorts of interesting things, like Black Cat Auditions in Hollywood. Oh, one could get lost for eons in this site.
Do you have any favorite sites where you tend to stay much longer than intended?
If not, here’s a good place to start: Most Addictive Websites
It varies. Sometimes it’s FB. Sometimes it’s blogs. Sometimes it’s email. Sometimes it’s Amazon. So many interesting things, and so little time.
Hey, coming to MY blogs isn’t wasting time, is it????
I am trying so hard to cut my computer time. I don’t have research as an excuse, unless I am planning a trip.
Most of the blogs I visit relate to writing historical fiction. And of course, most of them talk about their research. Then it is off on all those wonderful links (see above). I had to cut down on the blogs I do visit, because I am getting absolutely nothing done. I think it is fascinating that they has a squirrel cage style jail out West in the 1800s and that women wore platform shows quite a bit ago so their feet and clothing would stay above the mud. It is all fascinating stuff, but the laundry needs to get don, the garden weeded, and the dust bunnies chased. But the lure of finding out what they used for shampoo in 1750 Europe or the truth about England’s white slave trade involving the Irish and Scots holds much more interest. I am going to ignore the links above (but I know where to find them : )). Hmmm, I collected paper dolls when I was much younger. I bet that Regency Paper Doll interactive site would be really interesting. I will not look, I will not look, I will not look…
Thanks for an interesting post.
I am so with you about following links. Eventually you look up at the clock and see half the day is gone!
(I am so very pleased that our blogs are ones you continue to visit, Librarypat!