Geekdom off the chain (Markov of course)
This looks like a simple site but it is deep and links to a lot lot more.
I was planning on accomplishing something this summer but I may just take a year or two off for reading.
Check out the glory of sciencemadness.org
From their online library page:
The Sciencemadness library currently holds 66867 pages of reading and reference material in 130 volumes.They also have the complete The Los Alamos Technical Reports Collection here. And if that was not gravy enough, they link to this site: Hathi Trust Digital Library This is an alternative to Google Books but often provides complete documents where GB will only have excerpts. These are entirely public domain but the website will only allow downloads at ten pages per session (this varies). Fortunately, sciencemadness offers the HathiHelper which is a stand-alone script that automates the downloading of the entire document. Lots of screen-caps and instructions -- looks really well thought out. I tried entering "blacksmith" into the search screen and was rewarded with 288 entries. From the Hathi Trust website, they are saying that they have 28% of all of the Public Domain works available online (10+ million volumes). This is a staggering number. Just as a heads up, I found this wonderful site while reading Bayou Renaissance Man's entry on Rocket scientists at work - and play. Some great stories, from a PDF 233 page book; found of course, at sciencemadness.org. Go there and read...
