How to Improve This Project

The first step for adding a text is just deciding if it’s got a lot of complicated formatting, like has a lot of URLs and superscript that you want to preserve.

If it’s a short essay with no superscript or hyperlinks then you can just copy paste it into the edit box marked no.1 in the image below.
If it is complicated, you’ll want to maybe save it in microsoft word as a .htm file, then drag and drop into the uploader where the arrow is pointing next to no.2:

Then you can fill in this metadata, don’t worry if you get it wrong as you can always do it later by fixing the ‘# metadata at the top’.

So, if it’s a simple text with not a lot of formatting you can simply copy paste the text into this box to convert like italic text into the website’s amusewiki markup. You just have to click the plus button at the top, scroll down, copy paste your text into the box, then scroll down again and hit ‘Create’.

With docs with a lot of already formatted footnotes or hyperlinks, you can use the html uploader feature. So, like copy pasting your web page into a word document and saving the document as a .htm and dragging and dropping into this box on the ‘add new text’ page:

Converting photoscans

The best photoscan converter out there I think is ABBYY fine reader, so that’s the conversion method I’ll explain, but you can find other converters online also that this method will broadly be useful for.

Open ABBYY Fine Reader, click OCR Editor and select the PDF or image file you want to convert.
Click edit image in the top left corner of main window where you’re looking at the PDF.
Check if the scan needs certain things fixing like cropping and deskewing, using the edit image options on the right. The most important one is “Resolution”, click “Detect Optimal Resolution”, select “all pages” in the drop down options and click “Apply”.
Select the right language for converting at the top in the middle.
In the drop down menu items in the top left click “Tools” > “Options”. Click DOCX on the left under “Document Type”. Make sure the Document layout option says “Editable copy”. Uncheck all the boxes except “Keep pictures”, then close that Options box.
In the drop down menu items in the top left click “File” > “Save As” > “Microsoft Word Document”.
Go from top to bottom fixing heading levels and marking errors. Holding down on the ‘CTRL’ key, tapping the ‘up’ key, marking paragraph break errors with ‘???’, the beginning of quotes with ‘@@@’ & end of quotes with ‘ ~’. All symbols within easy reach of the ‘up’ arrow key.
Find and replace ‘ ~’ with ‘£££’ so they don’t get wrapped in the ‘<verbatim>’ code when converted on vertopal.
Convert from DOCX to MUSE on vertopal.com
Open the MUSE file in a notepad, find and replace three space marks for 2 space marks, keep hitting ‘replace all’ and check with ‘find’ to make sure you’ve deleted all long multiple spaces.
Select all and copy paste into word.
Find paragraphs with two spaces at the beginning and replace with one space: ‘^p ‘ to ‘ ‘.
Find and replace paragraphs with one space at the beginning ‘^p ‘ to ‘$$$ ’
Find and replace ‘^p^p’ to ‘$$$’
Find and replace ‘^p’ to space ‘ ’
Find and replace ‘$$$’ to ‘^p^p’
Go through the document finding the ways vertopal has often mistakenly converted formatting into ‘<quote>’ & ‘ </quote>’ and delete in various ways.
Find and replace ‘£££’ to ‘^p</quote>’
Find and replace ‘@@@’ to ‘<quote>^p’
Go through the document finding and replacing ‘^p^p???’ with spaces, but make sure you catch variations like ‘^p^p^p’ and ‘-^p’.
Filled in all the text metadata on the amusewiki website and hit ‘Create’.
Copy paste into the amusewiki editing box under the ‘#metadata’ and check the ‘fix typography’ and ‘rearrange the footnote’ boxes, and hit preview.
Copy back into a notepad and go through the text finding and replacing some of the ‘- ‘ with ‘-’ & ‘— ‘ with ‘—’ to fix left over end of line breaks. Plus, looking for any footnote errors if there was a problem rearranging them, such as searching for “ and replacing with square brackets ‘[’.
Copy back into the edit box and hit preview again, and if everything looks good, hit ‘Save’ and you’re done.

Converting Digital PDFs

Convert from PDF to word using Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, vertopal or convertio. Some work better than others depending on the Digital PDF. Check that it preserved italics and there aren’t things like random spaces in the middle of words.
Click CTRL+F, and “Headings” to show what headings are marked. Scroll down the document checking headings are marked. Sometimes when you find a heading not marked you just need to find what style it shows as on the left, click “select all” and change to “heading 3”.
Go from top to bottom fixing heading levels and marking errors. Holding down on the ‘CTRL’ key, tapping the ‘up’ key, marking paragraph break errors with ‘???’, the beginning of quotes with ‘@@@’ & end of quotes with ‘ ~’. All symbols within easy reach of the ‘up’ arrow key.
Find and replace ‘ ~’ with ‘£££’ so they don’t get wrapped in the ‘<verbatim>’ code when converted on vertopal.
Convert from DOCX to MUSE on vertopal.com
Open the MUSE file in a notepad, find and replace three space marks for 2 space marks, keep hitting ‘replace all’ and check with ‘find’ to make sure you’ve deleted all long multiple spaces.
Select all and copy paste into word.
Find paragraphs with two spaces at the beginning and replace with one space: ‘^p ‘ to ‘ ‘.
Find and replace paragraphs with one space at the beginning ‘^p ‘ to ‘$$$ ’
Find and replace ‘^p^p’ to ‘$$$’
Find and replace ‘^p’ to space ‘ ’
Find and replace ‘$$$’ to ‘^p^p’
Go through the document finding the ways vertopal has often mistakenly converted formatting into ‘<quote>’ & ‘ </quote>’ and delete in various ways.
Find and replace ‘£££’ to ‘^p</quote>’
Find and replace ‘@@@’ to ‘<quote>^p’
Go through the document finding and replacing ‘^p^p???’ with spaces, but make sure you catch variations like ‘^p^p^p’ and ‘-^p’.
Filled in all the text metadata on the amusewiki website and hit ‘Create’.
Copy paste into the amusewiki editing box under the ‘#metadata’ and check the ‘fix typography’ and ‘rearrange the footnote’ boxes, and hit preview.
Copy back into a notepad and go through the text finding and replacing some of the ‘- ‘ with ‘-’ & ‘— ‘ with ‘—’ to fix left over end of line breaks. Plus, looking for any footnote errors if there was a problem rearranging them, such as searching for “ and replacing with square brackets ‘[’. For some complex errors you might run into you can consult this page: Rare AmuseWiki text markup problems & fixes
Copy back into the edit box and hit preview again, and if everything looks good, hit ‘Save’ and you’re done.

Converting EPUBs

Convert from PDF to word using Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, vertopal or convertio. Some work better than others depending on the Digital PDF. Check that it preserved italics and there aren’t things like random spaces in the middle of words.
Click CTRL+F, and “Headings” to show what headings are marked. Scroll down the document checking headings are marked. Sometimes when you find a heading not marked you just need to find what style it shows as on the left, click “select all” and change to “heading 3”.
Fill in all the text metadata on the amusewiki website and hit ‘Create’.
Copy paste into the amusewiki editing box under the ‘#metadata’ and check the ‘fix typography’ and ‘rearrange the footnote’ boxes, and hit preview.
Copy back into a notepad and go through the text finding and replacing any errors, such as if there’s a problem rearranging the footnotes, check for superscript formatting: ‘<sup>’ and replace with square brackets ‘[’. For some complex errors you might run into you can consult this page: Rare AmuseWiki text markup problems & fixes
Copy back into the edit box and hit preview again, and if everything looks good, hit ‘Save’ and you’re done.

Error Correcting

Anyone can edit any text on the website.

If you’re busy and see a text with a lot of errors that need correcting you can simply add this tag to the #topics: Half-finished error correcting.

Texts that are halfway through error correcting

Copy Typing

A) Texts that are halfway through typing up

If you see a text that someone only half copy typed up and forgot to mark as ‘half-finished’, you can simply add this tag to the #topics: Half-finished copy typing

Autobiographical

Letters before his arrest

Essays by Ted

Ted’s Letters from Prison

B) Resources with lots of scans of which some have not yet been typed up into texts

Doc Converting

PDF to HTML

ABBYY fine reader is the best pdf to word doc converter, then I save it as a HTML, then drag and drop into the little upload box underneath the text box when creating a new text.

And you can always get the program for free through those jolly sailor friends.

Converting EPUBs to Doc

I drag and drop the file onto the website Convertio then save the file as a HTML in word.

Other tips

If I upload a book to the website and it gets the heading levels wrong, I copy paste it into a spreadsheet column, create a column of numbers to the left, then sort both by the text on the right and look for all the heading text beginning with ** which makes it easier to fix, seeing all the headings together.

Quote Indents

This one takes a long time, but if you have a lot of books you want to bulk upload perfectly with quote indents, you can do them this way and all at the same time so it’s worth it:

So if I have the document open in LibreOffice, I hit File -> Export -> and chose MediaWiki format in the ‘Save as’ drop down menu.

Then I open up the new file and copy paste it back into an office word document. All the indents will look something like this: “<div style=“margin-left:1.251cm;margin-right:0cm;”>___</div>

Then I find and replace all the “<div style....” and</div> into amusewiki code <quote>and</quote> .

Then replace single line quotes into block quotes by doing find and replace “</quote>^p^p<quote>” with simply “^p^p”.

Requesting Uni Scans

Here’s the guide for requesting documents from Michigan Uni. Library: Viewing the Documents.

Ted’s Writings

Some work of Ted’s from the Michigan Archive that looks particularly interesting that are not on the website:

Personal diary entries in Spanish 2008
Autobiographical notes 1996-12-05
Notes on biographies 2003
Notes of pages missing or illegible in TK’s journal photocopies
Materials related to Chris Waits (1 of 4)
Materials related to Chris Waits (2 of 4)
Materials related to Chris Waits (3 of 4)
Materials related to Chris Waits (4 of 4)
Notes on Montana wilderness
Independent Study in Introspective Psychology, First draft with corrections by TK 2000-04-15
Drawings

Other Interesting docs in the Archive

Series 1: Correspondence

Folder 22 – Judy Clarke
Folder 137 – Presidential Inaugural Committee
Folder 145.0 – Lydia Eccles (1 of 15)
Folder 250 – Lincoln Rural Fire Dist.
Folder 395.0 – Theresa Kintz (1 of 2)
Folder 395.1 – Theresa Kintz (2 of 2)
Folder 406 – Wanda Kaczynski
Folder 407 – David Kaczynski
Folder 419 – Rejected publication notifications
Folder 462.0 – John Zerzan (1 of 7) 1996 – 1997
Folder 462.6 – John Zerzan (7 of 7)
Folder 585 – Earth First
Folder 592 – Steve Booth/Green Anarchist
Folder 688 – “Rob” in UK
Folder 692 – Richard Hering/Green Anarchists
Folder 737 – Jack Wild/Live Wild or Die
Folder 942 – Do or Die Magazine
Folder 1127 – Stephen Dubner
Folder 1267 – Freedom Bookshop
Folder 1271 – Ted Kaczynski note to correspondents
Folder 1284 – Holly Bailey/Yahoo

Series 2: Legal

Case-related correspondence, Miscellaneous correspondence sent while in Montana
Wanda Kaczynski’s writings
Catalog of Kaczynski papers held by the government (1 of 3) 1996 – 1998
Catalog of Kaczynski papers held by the government (2 of 3) 1996 – 1998
Catalog of Kaczynski papers held by the government (3 of 3) 1996 – 1998
List of documents found in cabin
List of books taken from cabin
Manuals from cabin
Photocopies of envelopes
Library requests
University of Montana materials (1 of 2)
University of Montana materials (2 of 2)
TK’s comments on “On the Unabomber” by Scott Corey
TK’s preparatory notes for defense team meetings

Series 3: Prison

Healthcare
Inmate visiting lists
Psychological Records, Sacramento County Jail and Dublin Federal Detention center 1996 – 1997
Notes on psychologists; psychology reports

Series 5: Writings of Ted K — Subseries: Refutation Documents

Ae: Autobiography of Wanda Kaczynski
Cb: Family letters – Supplementary items
Cd: TJK – Juan Sanchez correspondence (1 of 3)
Cd: TJK – Juan Sanchez correspondence (2 of 3)
Cd: TJK – Juan Sanchez correspondence (3 of 3)
Ce: Letter from Quin Denvir to Robert Cleary
Cf: Letter from Quin Denvir to Michael Donahoe
Cg: Letter from Quin Denvir to Ted Kaczynski
Db: Dave’s deposition (1 of 2)
Db: Dave’s deposition (2 of 2)
Kb: Lincoln interviews

Series 8: FBI Files (original order)

Freedom Club letters and miscellaneous notes: K2013B, K1820, K1827, K1824, K1829, K1020, K2005, K2012, K1819, K1831, K1817, K1834, K1811, K1833, K1816, K1832, K1826
FC letter to NY Times, notebook with miscellaneous lists: K1835, K2035B
Journal series VI #5, 1975: K2003E
Letters to Montana psychologists, letter to Professor Paul Kurtz, application for Montana Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services: K2028D, K2028
Notes on academic articles and books: K2031
Correspondence and notes regarding radioactive pollution, University of Montana application, income taxes and Spanish notes: K2017P, K2017AB, K2017AA, K2017S, K2017Z, K2017AC
Income tax documents, correspondence Juan Sanchez Arreola: K2017Q, K2017AD
Journal series I #1, 1969: K2046F
Journal series II #2, 1972 : K2046N
Journal series II #2, 1972 : K2046N
Suggestions for Earth Firsters from FC: K2041G
Differential calculus, correspondence to Earth First Journal: K2019I, K2041P
Identification cards, contact information, calculations, miscellaneous journal notes: K2027B, K2035A, K2024B, K1075-22B
Letters to The Missoulian, newspaper clippings, letters to Montana congressman and state commerce department, letter from Dave Kaczynski regarding Juan Sanchez, and sunrise/sunset tables: K2026

Sharing Doc Info

If you have PDFs of books and essays you’d like to share, you can always upload them temporarily to disroot and post the link on the discord.

Or you can let people know about docs you’d like info on here.

Books

L’affaire Unabomber

Apostolid‘es, Jean-Marie. (1996). L’affaire Unabomber. Monaco: Editions du Rocher.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/36323156?oclcNum=36323156

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9782268023694/Laffaire-Unabomber-Apostolid%C3%A8s-Jean-Marie-2268023699/plp

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laffaire-Unabomber-Jean-Marie-Apostolid%C3%A8s/dp/2268023699

Eco Terror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature

Arnold, Ron. (1997). Eco Terror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature. The World of the Unabomber. Bellevue, NY: Free Enterprise Press.

https://www.amazon.com/EcoTerror-Violent-Agenda-Nature-Unabomber/dp/0939571188

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780939571185/EcoTerror-Violent-Agenda-Save-Nature-0939571188/plp

Unabomber: Handled With Care

Cerasini, Marc. (1997). Unabomber: Handled With Care. New York: Random House.

Likely a satirical graphic novel.

Technophobe — The Unabomber Years

Seth Gordon Productions Staff. (1996). Technophobe — The Unabomber Years: The Ultimate Sourcebook of Facts, Figures, Chronology, Photography, Profiles and Maps. ----: Dove Books. October 1997.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070524215845/http://www.amazon.com/Technophobe-Sourcebook-Chronology-Photography-Unexpurgated/dp/0787111597

Thesis

The New York Times and the Washington Post

Oh, Yeonho. (1997). The New York Times and the Washington Post: Covering Humanity vs. Technology Issue in the Unabomber Case. Unpublished Masters Thesis, Regent University.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/37366984?oclcNum=37366984

Leading The Witnesses?

Willard, Mark, 1997. Leading The Witnesses?: The Media’s Coverage Of The Unabomber Case. Unpublished Thesis (B.S.), California Polytechnic State University, 1997.

Journals

Dark Mountain

Would be curious to see more info on Dark Mountain: dark-mountain.net/books

Here is our archive of the website: A text dump on dark mountain

Video Transcripts

Unabomber Suspect in Custody

----. (1996). Unabomber Suspect in Custody. The 4/7/96 episode of This Week with David Brinkley. New York: ABC News Video Collection. [video, 60 mins.]

Discusses the search for the Unabomber and the events leading up to and including the seizure of suspect Ted Kaczynski.

Organise the Table of Contents

Keeping track of various Ted K archive docs:

Critique Us

Reading critiques and suggestions on the direction people think this project should head in is always useful. Whether it be that you think the table of contents should be re-organized or disclaimers added to texts, etc. Let us know by joining the discord, tweeting at us, emailing thetedkarchive@proton.me or DMing us.

Ethical steps taken by this project

We have a list of essays critiquing Ted’s politics & philosophy on the front page of the website.

There are long critiques and disclaimers added to some texts and we aim to add more.

When collecting together research on misanthropic groups and projects, we simply title the text ‘a text dump on ______’. That way for example we don’t dignify fictional stories terror groups weave when they write their own press releases and title them as communiqués.

Anyone can join the debate over which texts should go up on the website, obviously if you join just to troll or spam though, you will be removed.

A record will be kept of all texts that were rejected, whether for minor formatting reasons or deeply held political reasons.

A record will also be kept of controversial texts that were approved, where for example there was a sizable disagreement.

Ideally, in the future we will have popular sorting mechanisms directly under the main search box, such as a check box for ‘only anarchist texts’ that would exclude texts labelled ‘not anarchist’.