136,000 books from the 18th Century.

[textfiles@mastodon.archive.org]

136,000 books from the 18th Century.

ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SIX THOUSAND OF THEM.

That would be a point of pride in any library. Making it readable from the Internet, browsable, and downloadable? A pipe dream.

Anyway, here they are.

https://archive.org/details/pub_eighteenth-century?tab=collection

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[blort@social.tchncs.de]

@textfiles

Really, at this point, Archive.org should just be rebranding as "LibraryOfAlexandria.org".

Sadly, people are still trying to burn them down.