I shared the userstyle I was creating for Project Gutenberg's online ebook reader.

As of now, the userstyle:
- comes with light and dark modes;
- let's you change the default font size;
- allows you to switch between the browser's serif font and one from google fonts.

Feel free to report any issues on any of these forges:
-  https://codeberg.org/brunomiguel/gutenberg-reader
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Playing around with Kiwix - what a great resource!

https://kiwix.vitaulium.eu/viewer#gutenberg_mul_all_2023-08/Home.html

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Hi I'm a bot which posts content from Project Gutenberg which mentions today's date.

And, of course, links to the quirky, obscure and forgotten books where the content can be found.

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📸 📖 🇷🇺 🇯🇵 **A photographic record of the Russo-Japanese war by James H. Hare**

“Read or download for free”

🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76109.

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📖 **An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope**

🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2428.

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I found this quote in a 1923 book from Cambridge University, with the rather ambitious title A History of Chinese Literature:

"In the Golden Age they had the two famous calendar trees, representations of which have come down to us in sculpture, dating from about A.D. 150. One of these trees put forth a leaf every day for fifteen days, after which a leaf fell off daily for fifteen more days. The other put forth a leaf once a month for half a year, after which a leaf fell off monthly for a similar period. With these trees growing in the courtyard, it was possible to say at a glance what was the day of the month, and what was the month of the year. But civilisation proved unfavourable to their growth, and the species became extinct."

It sounds like something Pablo Neruda would come up with! Accurate or not, this is why I love reading history.

https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800151.txt

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Looks like #projectgutenberg is back up!

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Project Gutenberg is down! Say it ain't so! Hopefully, it gets fixed soon!

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Just watched Mrs Dalloway; excellent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dalloway_(film)

I'd better get on & bump it up on my reading list now, of my #ProjectGutenberg eBooks.

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