Cooks Oracle 1823 by William Kitchiner
https://archive.org/details/cooksoraclecont02kitcgoog
Larousse Gastronomique versions on Library Genesis (and the original one is Authored by Prosper Montagné, and Charlotte Snyder Turgeon)
https://libgen.rs/search.php?req=Larous ... column=def
It wasn't exactly easy to find it on Internet Archive (org)
Another website was popular for textbooks and similarly having a digital version of a large hardbound seems a bit more rational. . . Though of course, similar websites have been pulled offline just the same (probably because, when using the secondary mirror, Maleware Block does flag the website. . . Also, the website seems to pop up where you need to add the file extension.)
And yet, I most likely will never actually use the cookbooks. . . I have many, but I can see myself just doing the usual routine junk (I actually, despise restaurants for this reason, that most everything is kind of irrelevant and time-consuming.)
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James Clavell - Asian Saga series which includes the book Shogun, which is what the miniseries starring one of Toshiro Mifune's last major roles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Saga
Kazuo Ishiguro
Yukio Mishima (The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy collection is in one of the files, and Calibre can convert to pdf, though awkward
https://archive.org/details/TheSeaOfFertilityTetralogy )
etc
Aaron T. Beck - Prisoners of Hate Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence
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Some physical books have digital variants between libgen.rs, annas-archive.org, and archive.org
John L. Casti - Paradigms Lost, Alternate Realities
Richard Panek - 4% universe
Surprised I found this copy (I think it's one of the better books with Poe's writing). . . Mine had a scantron with contact information from the original owner (presumably a young man or late-teen) circa 1960s with a woman's contact info written down. (This was that Apt
https://www.apartmentfinder.com/Ohio/Co ... ts-sbkxge7 )
Poetry Omnibus - Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) Selected Prose, Poetry, and Eureka (1950)
https://annas-archive.org/md5/22c62dc79 ... 4ce0433b02
Kenneth Roberts
Michael Crichton
Horatio Hornblower omnibus
https://archive.org/details/HoratioHorn ... 5/mode/2up
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I feel a bit like an idiot. . . As soon as I had converted Epub to PDF and compiled a bunch of info on Stephen King books, I noticed that most all of them (including the Dark Tower Series which were not a part of the other collection, which I obtained after having already completed download) were in this. The lack of descriptions in the files kind of makes it a hassle as well, though I'll need to look over it some more. It's supposed to have a bunch of Robert Jordon books as well.
https://archive.org/details/FantasyFict ... aggers.pdf
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Leo Tolstoy collection,
https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8E ... 3CF8134559
Also, look for Victor Hugo - The Complete Novels and Bram Stoker Collection
Heinlein (most all of his work)
https://annas-archive.org/md5/89718e36f ... f0401edb59
Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
https://annas-archive.org/md5/ec7b7c16d ... c392a6ef6f
Aubrey & Maturin Complete Collection (21 Books) (The movie Master and Commander was the first book)
https://library.lol/main/7881E6320E27B1 ... 107FE29ACE
The Cookbook Lobscouse and Spotted Dog is based on those books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2 ... rin_series
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5 ... ck_O_Brian
I assumed the movie was just a one-off thing, and never bothered looking into it much. A lot of literature had a lot of serialization, and return characters.
Horatio Hornblower saga is another file in one pdf (it might have originally been an epub, which is a format I think I will just keep as is; unless it's a mobi which converts best to epub and alternatively from there pdf.)
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Cookbooks:
(The original Italian book is supposedly a little different, though this one is still pretty good.)
The Talisman Italian Cook Book by Ada Boni
https://archive.org/details/the-talisma ... k-boni-ada
A much nicer looking one is
The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual (2010) by Frank Castronovo (though I could see the above one being more useful.)
One of the best books I've come across is
Cookbook, America's Test Kitchen New Family (2014)
Julia Child Mastering the Art of French Cooking is good and likely influenced a lot of cooks, though I've always found Craig Claiborne's work to be far more impressive. I also find Paul Bocuse to be grossly overrated with his cookbooks. . . They actually suck and it's like searching through some half-assed recipes online ("This is how you wisk your eggs") designed for people that like to show off their cooking prowess by showcasing the books in their kitchen. . . Julia Child is still good and was very approachable at the time she popularized cooking on TV (after all, she was an icon of television,) but the bread section in Vol 2 made me find another book considering the volume of the material, it was probably necessary to find a specialized one:
Upper Crust - Homemade Bread the French Way (2021) Marie-Laure Fréchet
Other good cookbooks are:
The Connoisseur's Cookbook (1965) Robert Carrier.
German, A Complete Guide to Mastering Authentic (1965) Mimi Sheraton
Cajun = The Justin Wilson Gourmet and Gourmand Cookbook (1984)
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This might be an even better Italian cookbook
Lidia's Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Great Italian Cook: A Cookbook
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252 ... an-cuisine
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Free Gnostic (and other types of) books:
https://gnosis.study/
In annas-archive org If you search for Jerry eBooks or Delphi and an old author, you will find a lot of public domain books, often organized in a way that would be difficult to achieve with extensive effort.
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Modern versions of historic books are nearly incomparable. . . The newer releases look like children's literature (I had a slipcover version of this book, and had to go to the original source material.) It makes me think of Folio Society books or many modern ones that barely even hint at when the book had originally been published, so as to make you forget what you are looking at (and to sell you stuff that is well beyond copyright protection.)
Take
History of Conquest of Peru (1522-1548) William Prescott (1847) with both Vol 1-2 at 600 pages each, and you get a version with 500 pages with some filled up completely with generic art, and zero annotations. It takes it from a serious scholarly attempt at research and renders it into a comic book (so the nearly 2/3rds of regular font could perhaps comprise of much of the pages, with parts edited to hint at any important annotations.) It might make it more relevant to modern readers, though it is not the same book.
https://archive.org/details/@scanner-ia ... y=conquest
Public domain books (I managed to find some extremely rare books that aren't found anywhere.)
https://www.hathitrust.org/
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This is kind of an insane deal
(or click here:
https://annas-archive.org/md5/5843173a6 ... 1cf57a1637
or a smaller file
https://annas-archive.org/md5/d9d97a441 ... 52de81adb3 )
Harvard Classics, with different versions, starting off with Charles Eliot (President of Harvard) which comprises of 51 volumes which has evolved into the extended Parts edition, which has well over 100.
According to this version it's 180 books for $5.
https://www.amazon.com/Harvard-Classics ... B077SCLQJF
You could spend hours (as I've done) compiling a library, and this not only streamlines a big part of it but requires very little effort in putting it together. You could literally add this one file to a kindle and never get around to reading half of it (mostly because people will only value things that don't challenge their thought process. I've seen authors churn out 17 books of kiddy literature in 3 years, which exceeds the number of books that Frank and James Herbert spent in their lifetime of writing sci fi. . . Judging from the reviews you would somehow mistakenly assume the writing was better, but I assure you, it is not. . .)
146 books for $7
https://www.delphiclassics.com/shop/the ... edition-2/
The best, newest updated (basically the index was organized) version of the 51 volumes which should be all it contains, and should be no more or less:
for $2
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Harvard ... B076PKKZ22
I tink the 180 books listing is misleading, and often they categorize it differently. I've seen Harvard published books of nothing but random essays that are probably ignored today, but here it shows just 12 volumes of literature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
It evolves from there with various compilations of various 100 books of literature sets for $1-2. . . I probably should have checked into these things sooner, though realize that it's a bit like the Loeb series of ancient Greek literature, which becomes irrelevant, and you can now find sets of some of these texts with 3 different translations (and I have a hardcopy of Boccaccio's Decameron with a translation that wasn't included in an Epub file with 3 other translators.) It is probably best used as a guideline for what to add into a library, and it's good to just innovate with file names to add in overlooked details, such as time period and influence. These Kindle files too often leave out details that just become manipulative, to get you to click the buy button.
A good list to look over are the Great Books of the Western World as Free eBooks (though the links are now dead; you can still find the individual authors complete works in Delphi on the links I posted before.
https://prodigalnomore.wordpress.com/gr ... ee-ebooks/
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Another series is
The Cambridge History of China (17 volumes published with another on the way)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cambr ... y_of_China
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Engineering magazine
https://www.edn.com/
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Early Western Travels - Vol 1-30 (1748-1846)
I had been acquiring the complete set by jumping around through different websites, and it turns out it was listed in this link the whole time. (Though Annas Archive has better pdf files.)
https://archive.org/details/earlywester ... 8/mode/2up
Missing is Volume 25 which would have had some extensive lithographs of drawings by Charles (Karl) Bodmer who went on an expedition comprising 3 volumes, and the one I did come across is an auctioned book at $800. I suspect people would take the book apart and keep the images and frame them (something I've noticed happens with books that are perceived to not have as much value.)
I don't believe this account was included:
Jean-Bernard Bossu's Travels in the interior of North America, 1751-1762
https://annas-archive.org/md5/0d7bb61c1 ... 9da6c037ff
Alternatives to volume 25
American Indians - the art and travels of Charles Bird King, George Catlin and Karl Bodmer
https://annas-archive.org/md5/714ef82db ... a37a746b65
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The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627
https://annas-archive.org/md5/3101898a3 ... cb025c1bc4
Something to also look into:
Bodmer Papyri collection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bodmer_Papyri
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ju ... frontcover
Full book can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/ito-junji-s ... 7/mode/2up
Complete: Red Sonya (mostly a vintage Marvel comic with a return from a different publisher)
https://archive.org/details/red-sonja-comic-stuff