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Re: E-books that might be of interest to others

Postby Té Rowan » Sat Dec 07, 2024 9:49 pm

Some older SF for your reading pleasure:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70348 — "Imitation of Death" by Lester Del Rey.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70464 — "Absolutely No Paradox" by Lester Del Rey.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70483 — "Children of the Lens" by E. E. Smith.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70494 — "Second Stage Lensmen" by E. E. Smith.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72553 — "A Long Way Back" by Ben Bova.

Very established authors, indeed.
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Postby Té Rowan » Thu Dec 19, 2024 11:51 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71779 — "The Language of Flowers" by Henriett Dumont. Published in 1851.

What the various flowers were supposed to stand for. Seems to be a European language. Pan-European? Dunno.
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Postby Té Rowan » Tue Dec 24, 2024 11:25 pm

https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/north-pole-chart.pdf — Approach plate for Santa's Workshop International airport.
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Postby Té Rowan » Fri Feb 14, 2025 11:31 am

https://verificationhandbook.com/ — Stuff about verifying that the news you're getting are fit for publication.
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Postby Té Rowan » Thu Mar 06, 2025 12:02 pm

https://archive.org/details/Tehnium_201801 — Several volumes of a Romanian hobby magazine.

Romanian (the language) is heavily influenced by Latin and is written with a Latin alphabet. That means a good chance of you being able to work out the various projects (electronic and non-).
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Postby Té Rowan » Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:58 pm

https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED250164 — AMS 55, tenth printing with corrections (1972).
This is NBS/NIST's venerable "Handbook of Mathematical Functions", all thousand-odd pages of it.
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Postby Té Rowan » Sat Mar 29, 2025 8:43 am

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/628 — sqrt(3) to a million decimals.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20566 — "The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference" by Will Rogers.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75586 — "Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball" by George Herman Ruth.
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Postby Té Rowan » Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:12 pm

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Electronics/50s/Electronics-1958-01-03.pdf

This magazine has an article from a brace of boffins at MIT's Lincoln Labs on how to draw octal numbers (0–7) onto an oscilloscope CRT.
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Postby Té Rowan » Mon Apr 21, 2025 1:03 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75927 — "Vikings of to-day : Or, life and medical work among the fishermen of Labrador"
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75926 — "Through the Dark Continent" (1of2) by Henry M. Stanley.
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Postby Té Rowan » Wed Apr 23, 2025 7:28 pm

http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/mgousie/comp335/guide2langs.pdf — One of many lists on how to shoot yourself in the foot.
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Postby Té Rowan » Sat Jun 14, 2025 5:48 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76286 — "Elfin music: An anthology of English fairy poetry" by Arthur Edward Waite.
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Postby Té Rowan » Mon Jun 16, 2025 6:06 pm

"Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa … in the years 1849—1855", in five volumes, by Heinrich Barth.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76316 — Volume 1 (578 pp)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76317 — Volume 2 (675 pp)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76318 — Volume 3 (635 pp)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76319 — Volume 4 (641 pp)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76320 — Volume 5 (694 pp)

As you can see, this is a big book.
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Postby Té Rowan » Thu Jun 19, 2025 7:44 am

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72989 — "Jinrikisha days in Japan", 2.ed, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore; published in 1902.
As you perhaps guessed, this is a travelogue.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73082 — "On the Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Spectral Lines". Published in 1914.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73087 — "On the Quantum Theory of Radiation and the Structure of the Atom". Published in 1915.
These two papers are by Niels Bohr.
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Postby Té Rowan » Tue Jun 24, 2025 9:57 pm

https://archive.org/details/howtocartoonfora00hala/ — "How to Cartoon for Amateur Films".

Not the latest in cartoon tech, fer sure, but maybe you can draw and film your own "Ivor the Engine".
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Postby Té Rowan » Wed Jul 16, 2025 7:39 pm

https://archive.org/details/2548018R.nlm.nih.gov — The London dispensatory, anno 1720.

In case someone is looking for a potential home remedy for a story.
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