So Jason Scott dropped this earlier today:

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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://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles/111355884433387811

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And I’ve gone to have a look at them; me being me, the first thing I did was to punch the word cypher into the “text content” search engine, and got 7,296 results with apparently a substantial chunk (majority?) relating to Mary, Queen of Scots.

I shall enjoy picking through this.

https://archive.org/details/pub_eighteenth-century