A 404 Media reader has reformatted the Simple Sabotage Field Manual to be more legible as a PDF and shared it with us, so we’re going to share it with you.
Last week, I wrote about the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” a World War II era guide to resisting fascism for normal people. At the time, it was the fifth most popular book on Project Gutenberg, a website that hosts public domain books. It had been downloaded 60,000 times over the last month.
Currently, the book is by far the most popular on the site and has been downloaded more than 230,000 times in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg has copies of the book as plaintext, HTML, Kindle, and EPUB formats, but doesn’t host a PDF version of the book. The original version the CIA declassified is available as a PDF, but parts of it are blurry and some of the text is difficult to read.
Over the weekend, a 404 Media reader made a new layout of the guide as a searchable PDF and sent it to me, which I thought was very cool! They asked that I not identify them, but you can find here:
“May it run wild and free,” they said.
