Texts that are halfway through error correcting
A) Texts that are halfway through typing up
B) Resources with lots of scans of which some have not yet been typed up into texts
Other Interesting docs in the Archive
Series 5: Writings of Ted K - Subseries: Refutation Documents
Series 8: FBI Files (original order)
Eco Terror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature
Technophobe -- The Unabomber Years
The New York Times and the Washington Post
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.
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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.
I drag and drop the file onto the website Convertio then save the file as a HTML in word.
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.
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".
Here's the guide for requesting documents from Michigan Uni. Library: Viewing the Documents.
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
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
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
Healthcare
Inmate visiting lists
Psychological Records, Sacramento County Jail and Dublin Federal Detention center 1996 – 1997
Notes on psychologists; psychology reports
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
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
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.
Apostolid`es, Jean-Marie. (1996). L'affaire Unabomber. Monaco: Editions du Rocher.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/36323156?oclcNum=36323156
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laffaire-Unabomber-Jean-Marie-Apostolid%C3%A8s/dp/2268023699
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
Cerasini, Marc. (1997). Unabomber: Handled With Care. New York: Random House.
Likely a satirical graphic novel.
Gibbs, Nancy, Lacayo, Richard, Morrow, Lance, Smolowe, Jill, & Van Biema, David (with the editorial staff of Time Magazine). (1996). Mad Genius. New York: Warner Books.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/43787865?oclcNum=43787865
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mad-Genius-Odyssey-Pursuit-Unabomber/dp/0446604593
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
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
Willard, Mark, 1997. Leading The Witnesses?: The Media's Coverage Of The Unabomber Case. Unpublished Thesis (B.S.), California Polytechnic State University, 1997.
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
----. (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.
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.
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'.