This search engine gives you weird old book scans

What a delightful thing Clive Thompson (one of Boing Boing's regular contributors) has created! It's called Weird Old Books, and it is a search engine that returns one pre-1927 book based on your search term.

He wrote about it on Medium:

When I first starting crafting this, I had two design specs:1) Immediate accessI wanted a tool that would only find you books in the public domain. — Read the rest