How to Improve This Project

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

• Ted Kaczynski's 1979 Autobiography

• The Letters Between Ted Kaczynski and his Brother David

• Context Books Correspondence

• Days of War, Nights of Love

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

• Ted's Notes on his Journals (Feb. 1996)

• Journal #1 of 4 from Series VII (1984-1986)

• Ted's Journal on His Plans to Disfigure the Face of a Romantic Interest

• Ted Kaczynski's 1958 Autobiography

• Ted Kaczynski's 1959 Autobiography

Letters before his arrest

• The Letters Between Ted Kaczynski and his Brother David

• Neanderthal Man

• On Technology, Population and Society

• On Population Control

• On the Environmental Crisis and Individualism

• Ted Kaczynski's Letter to Ellul

Essays by Ted

• Progress versus Wilderness

• A Halloween Story

• Commentaries on Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

Ted's Letters from Prison

• Context Books Correspondence

• Letters from a serial killer: Inside the Unabomber archive

• Falling in love with the Unabomber

• Ted Argues the Harvard Psych Experiments Had Little Effect on His Personality

• For the love of a brother

• The Letters Between Ted Kaczynski and his Mother Wanda

• Conspiracy theories

• Apology to Women

• An attack of desire for women

• The Unabomber’s media strategy

• The Unabomber’s not-so-lonely prison life

• The Unabomber takes on the Internet

• Defending the indefensible

• Letters from the media

• Kaczynski pitches himself to the media

• I don't believe in God

• Kaczynski documents prison life

• Kaczynski and his lawyers

• I'm not crazy

• I love you, Teddy

• I have no idea what YouTube is

• Good things to say about me

• Friends on "Bombers Row"

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

• Our Archive.org Page

• The California University Archive

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: https://pdf.abbyy.com/

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 and is not yet 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 stuff 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.

Technological Slavery

If you have information about the latest version of Ted's book Technological Slavery there are people on the discord who would love to discuss some of the essays: amazon.com

This link shows a long table of contents with a fair few essays not on the website: find.mtsu.edu

Including:

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists

• On Learned Helplessness

• Human Will Versus the "Objective" Forces of History

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos

• Disposal of Radioactive Waste

• Loyalty to the System Versus Loyalty to Traditional Social Groups: Some Examples Relevenant to Paragraphs 51 & 52 of ISAIF

• In Support of the Letter to Dr. P.B.

Finally, here's the earlier version we have on the website: Technological Slavery

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

Uploading new docs

Keeping track of various Ted K archive docs

• In Short

• A Detailed Spreadsheet

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'.