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I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

The "Weird Old Book Finder"

Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: weird-old-book-finder.glitch.m

Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just *start readin'*

Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

A longer essay on how/why I developed it: debugger.medium.com/a-search-e

This was a search for "mastodon"

@clive I love this. I am a collector of weird old books.

Clive Thompson

@DebErupts Super! I have a bunch in hard copy too ... they are just delightful. The illustrations are typically *off* the *hook* amazing

@clive @DebErupts I love super random illustrations in old books. One of the most startling I remember finding was an early-20th century medical textbook from Vienna that inexplicably decided to include an image of a dead patient arising from the grave

@sarawasson @DebErupts

Oh wow, I just saw this now.

That's wild!