# Folkscanomy: A Library of Books, on the Internet Archive

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> **[Folkscanomy: A Library of Books](https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy)**
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> Folksonomy: A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social...

I was clued in on this by some buds in the Tandy TRS-80 community. It not only has loads of those manuals, but also books on Math and Science and Crackpottery! From _Principia Mathematica_ and _The Portrait in Photography_ to _Mein Kampf_ and (dig it!) _Adam Weishaupt: A Human Devil!_ Yes, campers, Mr Illuminati was both real and has had people writing bad stuff about him for the past 200+ years.

Check it out and report back with your finds. All available OCRed inaccurately, poorly edited, and in an assortment of formats.