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       # 2025-09-29 - Awesome Curated List of Mind Expanding Books
       
       I like books, lists of books, and lists of lists of books.
       I enjoy the Project Awesome lists and wish there were more
       activity like that in gopherspace plus in Creative Commons
       culture.  Be the change you want to see, eh?
       
       On project-awesome.org i found a list Mind Expanding Books 
       by hackerkid.  I intend to post a plain text version in my
       gopherhole.  I downloaded the raw README.md from github to
       convert.  I tried Bert Bos's gf-markdown-awk script but it
       converted the markdown tables to paragraphs.
       
       I have this notion that AWK was designed for small one-off
       scripts and not intended for a bondage & domination coding
       style.  So let's do a one-off script!
       
       I decided to use curl, webdump, and awk.  Webdump converts
       table rows to tab-delimited lines.  For this document, all
       of the tables have the same header and column count.  I'll
       simply switch between printing normal lines and flattening
       (reformatting) the table lines to fit gopher conventions.
       
       Here's a link to the script.
       
  TEXT flatten.awk
       
       I invoke it like so:
       
           $ URL=https://project-awesome.org/hackerkid/Mind-Expanding-Books
           $ curl -s $URL | webdump | mawk -f flatten.awk >list.txt
       
       You can see the results in the link below:
       
  TEXT Mind Expanding Books
       
       See also my other book lists:
       
   DIR List of lists of books
       
       tags: book,technical
       
       # Tags
       
   DIR book
   DIR technical