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Postby Té Rowan » Wed May 25, 2022 3:36 pm

https://archive.org/details/RetroGameDesignAndProgrammingBooks
A collection of old computer game type-in/design books for US-made 8-bit micros.
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Postby Té Rowan » Wed Jun 15, 2022 3:35 pm

https://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
As it says on the tin, various religion-related texts.
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Postby Té Rowan » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:11 am

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.531110 — "The Complete Plain Words" by Sir Ernest Gowers (1954)
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136376 — "The Complete Plain Words" by Sir Ernest Gowers (1973 revision by Sir Bruce Fraser)
https://archive.org/details/mindyourlanguage013279mbp — "Mind Your Language" by Ivor Brown (1962)
English can be a bit weird at times.
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Postby Té Rowan » Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:10 pm

https://archive.org/details/tnbooks — Tamil Nadu Text Books.
Schoolbooks, mostly for 11th and 12th Standard (16 and 17 year-olds), in both English and Tamil.
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Postby Té Rowan » Wed Jul 06, 2022 5:19 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68465 — "A collection of Latin maxims and phrases literally translated" by John N. Cotterell. Pub. 1913.
They are principles of law, so of interest mostly to students of law and/or Latin.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68466 — "Building a Championship Football Team" by Paul W. Bryant. Pub. 1968.
It's about American football, not English ditto.
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Postby Té Rowan » Fri Jul 29, 2022 5:23 pm

https://archive.org/details/Home_Energy_Applications_on_your_Personal_Computer from COMPUTE! Magazine.
That's a bunch of BASIC programs to analyse and estimate your energy use and costs. They look easy enough to port or rewrite in another language.
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Postby Té Rowan » Thu Aug 04, 2022 5:15 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68267 — "The Cross Word Puzzle Book" by Buranelli, Farrar and Hartswick.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68681 — "The Cross Word Puzzle Book, Second Series" by Buranelli, Farrar and Hartswick.
This is a collection of one hundred crossword puzzles for people to try and solve.
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Postby Té Rowan » Sun Aug 14, 2022 9:02 am

https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Radio-Programming/War-of-The-Worlds-50th-Anniversary.pdf
"No-one could believe, in the last years of the nineteenth century…" Oops! Wrong decade!
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Postby Té Rowan » Wed Aug 17, 2022 5:12 pm

https://archive.legion.org/handle/20.500.12203/4076?show=full — "The American Legion Magazine" of April, 1964.
"Baseball Starts April the Somehingth" is a US kids' view of sports.

https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1977-11 — "73 Amateur Radio Magazine" of November, 1977.
The "Electronics Study Guide" has young schoolkids' opinions on electronics and radio.
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Postby Té Rowan » Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:07 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68778 — "Elements of Show Card Writing" by John H. DeWild. Pub. 1923.
That's one way for shopkeepers to advertise their wares and prices.
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Postby Té Rowan » Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:24 am

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Postby Té Rowan » Thu Sep 15, 2022 7:17 pm

Notes on Building Construction:
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125000090916 — vol.1
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125000090924 — vol.2
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125000090932 — vol.3
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125000090908 — vol.4
Parts 1--3 are from 1904, part 4 from 1891. From these, you can get an idea of how English city houses were built in the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras.
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Postby Té Rowan » Sat Sep 17, 2022 8:30 am

https://archive.org/details/petrolengineate00keangoog — "The Petrol Engine" (1915) by Francis John Kean.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.113101 — "Manufacture of Soap" (1935) by 'An Industrialist'

https://archive.org/details/cosmeticshandboo00koll — "Cosmetics" (1920) by Theodor Koller.
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Postby Té Rowan » Sun Sep 18, 2022 6:55 am

https://archive.org/details/coolingtowersthe00guetrich — "Cooling Towers – Theory and Practice" (1907) by Oswald Gueth.
It's all about means of cooling water by letting it trickle down towers.

https://archive.org/details/modernrefrigerat00alth — "Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning" (1960) by A.D. Althouse and C.H. Turnquist.
State of the art circa sixty years ago, meaning it features Freons and similarly nice stuff.
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Postby Té Rowan » Thu Sep 22, 2022 6:45 pm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69025 — "The Filtration of Public Water-Supplies" (1905) by Allen Hazen.
How to turn sort-of clean water into really clean water.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69019 — "Elements of Woodwork" (1911) by Charles A. King.
A schoolbook about wood and woodworking.
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