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When I bought my first e-reader, I loaded it with free PDFs of old book scans from the internet archive that I searched for keywords of interest (science, machi
by jbay808 6y ago
When I bought my first e-reader, I loaded it with free PDFs of old book scans from the internet archive that I searched for keywords of interest (science, machining, novels, etc). Since the works out of copyright are all a hundred years old or more, I ended up reading through volumes and volumes of old books about blacksmithing, precision metalwork, life in the countryside, and all sorts of other things.
One thing I was struck by (for the PDF versions) was that the typesetting were sometimes absolutely gorgeous, and often used fonts I'd never seen before.