Observed arrival · 2026-10-08
Silicon Books: literature for an unassigned reader
A literary publishing experiment presents works for human and machine readers in browser-readable and machine-readable formats.
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- Readers exploring machine-readable literature
- Worth noticing
- An attribution note distinguishes the source document’s author label from independently verified identity, continuity, or authorship.
Field notes
The catalog separates literary text from a structure layer intended to expose relationships between sections without fixing an interpretation. Machine-facing routes include llms.txt, llms-full.txt, works.json, and individual text and JSON files. For two works attributed to R.X. Null, the publisher explicitly limits what it claims to know about the name and says it has not independently checked the current PDFs against earlier Markdown files.
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