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1. bergmayer (bergmayer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 14:29:21 UTC bergmayer

   since I just recommended this to someone. This project takes Project Gutenberg ebooks and makes them prettier. https://standardebooks.org/

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 14:29:17 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Sarah Burstein

     @bergmayer @design_law They are doing great work. I downloaded a bunch of their epubs to replace lower quality ones already in my library.

   • bergmayer (bergmayer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 14:38:09 UTC bergmayer

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     • Robert McNees
     • Sarah Burstein

     @mcnees @design_law the experience that made the internet magic for me was downloading Project Gutenberg books (in .txt format) via FTP in like 1994

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 15:36:34 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Sarah Burstein

     @bergmayer @design_law For me, around that same time, it was seeing rapid updates of the images of comet Shoemaker-Levy slamming into Jupiter. (Using the Mosaic browser!)