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Wow, another day, another "revolutionary" update to Project Gutenberg. 🎉🚀 Now with more dusty books no one reads and a UI that feels like it was designed by someone who just discovered HTML tables. 📚😂 Thank goodness for those "volunteers" who continue to make digital boredom possible!
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Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

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Messing around with books, as I always do.

I found a book by John Ball, who wrote "In the Heat of the Night" and other Virgil Tibbs novels. This one is called "The First Team", and it's not related to the VIrgil Tibbs series at all. So far it's about a man who works in the White House as a Russian translator. But Russia has conquered the USA thanks to the hippies and liberal politicians.

John Ball was a bit of a right-winger. And a white one, if you were wondering. Sydney Poitier did Ball a HUGE favor by not playing Virgil Tibbs the way he was written in the book, i.e. as basically a white guy dyed brown (metaphorically).

I'm not sure how far I'll get with "The First Team". The Russians are comically evil, so far.

I also took a look at the first few pages of "The Impossibles" by Mark Phillips. It features mind-crime (apparently) in the far-flung, exotic future of 1972! So far the writing seems above par, so that's good. I'll see where it goes.

Hold on! Turns out that "Mark Phillips" was a pseudonym used by Lawrence Jannifer (a good science fiction writer) and Randall Garrett (the author of the "Lord Darcy" stories, which is basically Sherlock Holmes in a magic-based universe). They wrote a series of three books under that pseudonym, and all three are available for download from Project Gutenberg—along with quite a few others!

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25267

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A gunboat crew journeys into the Amazon to confront deadly intelligent ants whose growing empire threatens humanity’s rule. https://hackernoon.com/ants-claimed-the-amazon #projectgutenberg

A man haunted by vivid dreams lives another life in a future world of love, political collapse, and catastrophic war that ends in tragedy. https://hackernoon.com/second-life-of-hedon #projectgutenberg

A driven student risks everything after a split-second lab mistake becomes a moral crisis, exposing ambition, class tension, & the cost of scientific integrity. https://hackernoon.com/when-a-microscope-alters-destiny #projectgutenberg

@GenXer

Bookmarked!

You should definitely check out https://standardebooks.org/ for beautiful hand-crafted ebooks taken from #ProjectGutenberg

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"
Partners in crime by Agatha Christie

Release Date Apr 2, 2026
Copyright Status
Public domain in the USA.
"

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/78342

An entomologist obsessed with rival Pawkins becomes convinced a mysterious moth is a new species—or a hallucination, driving him into paranoia and madness. https://hackernoon.com/moth-delusion #projectgutenberg

Industrial-era tale of Azuma-zi and Holroyd in a Camberwell dynamo shed where a giant generator becomes a false god, leading to murder and sacrifice story. https://hackernoon.com/azuma-zis-machine-cult #projectgutenberg

A man struck by lightning sees a distant island instead of reality, sparking a chilling sci-fi mystery about vision, space, and the limits of perception. https://hackernoon.com/eyes-that-wandered-beyond-space #projectgutenberg

A castaway hatches a prehistoric Ae pyornis egg on a remote island, forming a bond that turns deadly in this eerie tale of survival and lost species. https://hackernoon.com/the-island-that-hatched-extinction #projectgutenberg

A lone astronomer in a remote observatory is attacked by a mysterious flying creature, turning a quiet night of stargazing into a fight for survival. https://hackernoon.com/alone-with-the-unknown-in-borneo #projectgutenberg

A lonely orchid collector nurtures a mysterious plant that blooms into a deadly predator, turning beauty into horror in this chilling botanical tale. https://hackernoon.com/when-a-flower-becomes-a-predator #projectgutenberg

A disturbed visitor steals a deadly bacteria sample to poison London, triggering a frantic chase—only for a shocking twist to turn catastrophe into dark irony. https://hackernoon.com/a-drop-of-death-in-a-madmans-hand #projectgutenberg

Our home #internet service has gone out during this snow storm. I still have mobile. But I also have offline access to #Wikipedia and #ProjectGutenberg on my laptop, thanks to @kiwix !
Last month I downloaded a 110GB zim file and repurposed a Raspberry pi to serve this content offline.
Its great that these priceless repositories of knowledge are free to access and use, and made available to self host. For me, this just a fun project, but for an offline school in an under developed country, this same tech can help kids learn or provide access to knowledge in an emergency.

https://get.kiwix.org/en/

Ralph Paton reveals his hidden story, Ursula’s secret, and Dr. Sheppard’s help while Poirot prepares to expose Roger Ackroyd’s murderer at a tense reunion. https://hackernoon.com/unmasking-the-truth #projectgutenberg

Poirot gathers all suspects for a dramatic reunion, revealing Ursula’s secret, Ralph Paton’s location, and key clues that unravel Roger Ackroyd’s murder. https://hackernoon.com/expose #projectgutenberg

Ursula Paton reveals her secret marriage to Ralph Paton, her life as a parlormaid, and the shocking truths behind Roger Ackroyd’s murder in Fernly Park. https://hackernoon.com/ursula-paton-breaks-her-silence #projectgutenberg

Poirot observes Flora Ackroyd and Hector Blunt, discovers a wedding ring in the pond, and gathers subtle evidence at Fernly Park. https://hackernoon.com/relationships-in-the-ackroyd-estate #projectgutenberg

Poirot examines footprints, shoes, and a summer-house, tracing Ralph Paton’s movements while uncovering key evidence in the Ackroyd murder. https://hackernoon.com/tracing-the-murder-timeline #projectgutenberg

Flora Ackroyd enlists Hercule Poirot to investigate Roger Ackroyd’s murder, uncovering missing Ralph Paton, fingerprints, and a mysterious blue letter. https://hackernoon.com/the-larches-visit #projectgutenberg

Inspector Davis investigates Roger Ackroyd’s murder, uncovering a Tunisian dagger, a mysterious blackmail plot, and a suspicious butler. https://hackernoon.com/blackmail-and-the-dagger-clues #projectgutenberg

A shocking murder at Fernly Park: Roger Ackroyd is found dead in a locked room, with clues, missing letters, and a flustered butler. https://hackernoon.com/the-unfolding-mystery-of-fernly-park #projectgutenberg

Dr. Sheppard uncovers Ralph Paton’s secret engagement, overhears village intrigues, and meets the mysterious Mr. Porrott. https://hackernoon.com/confessions-of-a-mysterious-neighbor #projectgutenberg

Ah yes, the internet's favorite pastime: digitizing a 372-year-old snooze fest under the guise of "Project Gutenberg" to make sure no one in the 21st century ever reads it. 🤓📜 Bless those brave #transcribers for valiantly preserving every yawn-inducing detail while we all pretend to care. 😂
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm #digitization #ProjectGutenberg #bookpreservation #internetculture #HackerNews #ngated

@unusnemo
Oh yes. In fact I read a bit about the history of absolute zero when this conversation started. It's fascinating to see how they estimated where the bottom of the scale was, and how they then refined that number over the centuries.

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