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This does technically include doxxable information but I just told everyone in hextube my address because I am facing down some real bad stuff anyway so it doesn't really matter. Also If I am lucky I can make like my friend that published Angela's Ashes and get rich off a memoir about Irish suffering.
bro is the self-doxxer
selfdoxxing memoirmaxxer
i apologize for the 2022
I tell you hwat, you come find me and I will buy you a beer. actually I have no money but I will find someone to buy us both beer
It's not like you've historically cared much about it, a fun fact: I've actually been within a mile of you before.
nice lol
Of course it starts off with shitting on landlords. This website never disappoints.
lol yeah his nephew joined the IRA, then fled from the UK and joined the weathermen and helped firebomb a bank of america.
MashaaAllah
Interesting that he actually used the term townland. Many people out in the country still use the names of townlands from generational memory, but apart from local historians I've never heard of anyone actually calling them townlands.
Is this memoir already typed and just needs to be digitized or is it handwritten?
it is fully typed just need to be digitized
Have you considered scanning it and running OCR over it, then doing corrections?
Yeah that is probably what I will do I hear phone apps can do that now.
If you have access to a feed scanner, you could place the whole book in the feeder and get the whole thing scanned quick. Then you could find a FOSS utility that can scan your PDF and add or output the OCR text for you. You should check your public library. I know mine has a large multifunction copier that can scan a large document onto a thumb drive, for example.
I might not even have access to a bed soon man
Fair point. Listen, if you can get the whole thing scanned somehow, I'll take a crack at doing OCR on it for you to cut down on time.
might take you up on that.
I recently used a tool to convert PDF documentation of a Database Schema full of tables into a Mark-Down format, and it came out pretty good, I bet that tool (whose name I forget now) could handle this document. Just hit me up on Matrix or in the DMs.
No I Know This Much Is True moments I hope 
Nah it's a bit more light hearted than that