This experiment is the ephemeralization of the ideas of R. Buckminster Fuller and universe of his mind.
Out of print? Universe knows no such thing. The wealth was never the paper—it is the know-how, and you cannot learn less. Once a book is set free as pattern, it weighs nothing and reaches every passenger on Spaceship Earth at no cost to anyone. To withhold it is not scarcity but design failure—old pirate arithmetic of "you or me." It is you AND me. Reach for the trim tab: one server, one choice, and the knowing flows to all one-hundred percent of humanity. I seem to be a verb—so is knowledge.
— in the spirit of Buckminster Fuller
Status
Most texts have an initial digitization pass; chapter structures, raw image captures, text content, but have NOT been proofread.
The most complete digital translations are:
Multimedia
- YouTube Videos - A curated collection of lectures, documentaries, and videos about Buckminster Fuller
Table of Contents
| Title | Author | |
|---|---|---|
| 50 Years of the Design Science Revolution and the World Game | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| A Fuller Explanation | Amy C. Edmondson | |
| A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller's Vision of Hope and Abundance for All | L. Steven Sieden | |
| A Study of a Prototype Floating Community | Triton Foundation, R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| A Synergetics Dictionary | Buckminster Fuller, Edgar J. Applewhite | |
| A View from The Bridge of Spaceship Earth | John F. Sase Ph.D. | |
| American Dreamer: Bucky Fuller and the Sacred Geometry of Nature | Scott Eastham | |
| And It Came to Pass - Not to Stay | R. Buckminster Fuller, Jaime Snyder (Editor) | |
| Approaching the Benign Environment | R. Buckminster Fuller & Eric A. Walker & James R. Killian, Jr.University of Alabama Press | |
| Becoming Bucky Fuller | Loretta Lorance, Buckminster Fuller | |
| Beyond the Cube: The Architecture of Space Frames and Polyhedra | Jean-François Gabriel | |
| Buckminster Fuller | Robert R. Potter, Richard Gallin (Editor) | |
| Buckminster Fuller (Design Heroes Series) | Martin Pawley | |
| Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio | Mark Wigley | |
| Buckminster Fuller Reader | Buckminster Fuller, James Meller (Editor) | |
| Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends | Shoji Sadao | |
| Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Buckminster Fuller's Universe | Lloyd Steven Seiden | |
| Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work | L. Steven Sieden | |
| Buckminster Fuller: An Auto-Biographical Monologue/Scenario | Robert Snyder | |
| Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium | Thomas T. K. Zung | |
| Buckminster Fuller: At Home in the Universe | Alden Hatch | |
| Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility | Michael John Gorman | |
| Buckminster Fuller: Poet of Geometry | Cole Gerst | |
| Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe | K. Michael Hays, Dana A. Miller | |
| Bucky for Beginners | Mary Laycock | |
| Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller | Hugh Kenner | |
| Buckyworks | James T. Baldwin | |
| Charas | Syeus Mottel (Text by), R. Buckminster Fuller (Introduction by), Ben Estes | |
| Climate & Architecture | Jeffrey Ellis Aronin | |
| Color and Symmetry | Arthur L. Loeb | |
| Concepts & Images | Arthur L. Loeb | |
| Cosmic Fishing: An Account of Writing Synergetics With Buckminster Fuller | E. J. Applewhite | |
| Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity | R. Buckminster Fuller, Kiyoshi Kuromiya | |
| Critical Path | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Decentralizing Electricity Production | Howard J. Brown (Editor), Tom R. Strumolo (Editor) | |
| Design Emergency | Alice Rawsthorn, Paola Antonelli | |
| Design Science Primer | Medard Gabel, David Heeney | |
| Designs for a World That Works for All Volume 1 | Medard Gabel | |
| Designs for a World That Works for All Volume 2 | Medard Gabel | |
| Divided Spheres | Edward Popko, Chrisopher J. Kitrick | |
| Dome Builder's Handbook No. 2 | William Yarnall | |
| Dome Cookbook | Steve Baer | |
| Domebook 2 | Lloyd Kahn | |
| Dreamrunner | James Ballard | |
| Earth, Inc. | R.Buckminster Fuller | |
| Education Automation: Freeing the scholar to return to his studies | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Energy, Earth, and Everyone | Medard Gabel | |
| Est: the Steersman Handbook | L. Clark Stevens | |
| Everything I Know | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Exploring The Way Life Works: The Science Of Biology | Mahlon Hoagland, Bert Dodson, Judy Hauck | |
| From the Library of R. Buckminster Fuller | Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (firm) | |
| Fuller Speak | Rebecca Dalvesco | |
| Fuller's Earth | Buckminster Fuller, Richard J. Brenneman (Editor), Norman Cousins (Afterword by) | |
| Fuller's Earth | Richard J. Brenneman, Herbert Kohl (Foreword by, Contribution by) | |
| Genius at Work: Images of Alexander Graham Bell (A Studio book) | Dorothy Eber | |
| Geodesic Domes | Borin Van Loon | |
| Geodesic Math and How to Use It | Hugh Kenner | |
| Geostories | Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy | |
| Grunch of Giants | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Guinea Pig B: The 56 Year Experiment | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Ho-Ping Food for Everyone | Medard Gabel | |
| Humans in Universe | Buckminster Fuller, Anwar Dil | |
| I Seem to Be a Verb | R. Buckminster Fuller, Jerome Agel, Quentin Fiore | |
| Ideas and Integrities: A spontaneous autobiographical disclosure | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Impossible Heights | Adnan Morshed | |
| Innovation Methods Mapping | G. K. VanPatter, Elizabeth Pastor | |
| Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life | Eric D. Schneider, Dorion Sagan | |
| Introduction to Geometry | H. S. M. Coxeter | |
| Intuition | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Inventing Kindergarten | Norman Brosterman | |
| Inventions | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Inventions: Twelve Around One | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| iSites | Erin Rovalo | |
| King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter: the Man Who Saved Geometry | Siobhan Roberts | |
| Living Systems | James G. Miller | |
| Maps of the Mind: Charts and Concepts of the Mind and its Labyrinths | Charles Hampden-Turner | |
| Metaphysics of Buckminster Fuller: How to Let the Universe Work for You! | Phillip M Pierson | |
| More with Less | Nathan Aaseng | |
| New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller | Hsiao-Yun Chu & Roberto G. Trujillo | |
| Nine Chains to the Moon | Buckminster Fuller | |
| No More Secondhand God: And Other Writings | R Buckminster Fuller | |
| On What Is | James Nystrom | |
| Only Integrity Is Going to Count | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Order in Space | Keith Critchlow | |
| Perfect Symmetry | Jim Baggott | |
| Pilot for Spaceship Earth | Athena V. Lord | |
| Poker Without Cards: A Consciousness Thriller | Ben Mack | |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | John Mchale | |
| R. Buckminster Fuller on education | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| R. Buckminster Fuller: Pattern-Thinking | R. Buckminster Fuller, Daniel López-Pérez | |
| Regular Polytopes | H. S. M. Coxeter | |
| Shapes, Space, and Symmetry (Dover Books on Mathematics) | Alan Holden | |
| Signs Of Life How Complexity Pervades Biology | Ricard Sole, Brian Goodwin | |
| Solar 2: Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on New Sources of Energy | Steve Baer | |
| Space Structures | Arthur L. Loeb | |
| Structure in Art and in Science | Gyorgy Kepes (Editor) | |
| Sunspots: An Exploration of Solar Energy Through Fact and Fiction | Steve Baer | |
| Sunspots: Collected facts and solar fiction | Steve Baer | |
| Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking | R. Buckminster Fuller, E.J. Applewhite | |
| Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols | Henry Dreyfuss | |
| Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking | R. Buckminster Fuller, E.J. Applewhite | |
| Tetrascroll: Goldilocks and the Three Bears | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller | R. Buckminster Fuller, James Ward | |
| The Barefoot Architect | Johan van Lengen | |
| The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World | Harold G. Nelson, Erik Stolterman | |
| The Dome Builder's Handbook | John Prenis (Editor) | |
| The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller | R. Buckminster Fuller, Robert W. Marks | |
| The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College | Eva Díaz | |
| The Future of the Future | John Mchale | |
| The Geometrical Foundation of Natural Structure: A Source Book of Design | Robert Williams | |
| The Girl from Spaceship Earth: A True Story | Patricia Ravasio | |
| The Home Is a Dome | Cary O'Dell, Thad Heckman | |
| The Idea of the Communiversity | Ronnie Lessem, Anselm Adodo, Tony Bradley | |
| The Mind's Eye of Buckminster Fuller | Donald W. Robertson | |
| The Most Beautiful Molecule | Hugh Aldersey-Williams | |
| The Pound Era | Hugh Kenner | |
| The Sense of Significance | Louise Morley Cochrane | |
| The Seven Cultures of Capitalism | Charles H. Turner, Alfons Trompenaars | |
| Three Mile Island: Turning Point | William Keisling | |
| Tools to Change the World | Medard Gabel, David Heeney | |
| Untitled Epic Poem On the History of Industrialization | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Utopia or Oblivion | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| We Are All Astronauts | Joachim Krausse, Dana Miller, Roland Nachtigäller | |
| What I have learned | R. Buckminster Fuller | |
| Wholeness : On Education, Buckminster Fuller, and Tao | Alex Gerber Jr. | |
| Wizard of the dome: R. Buckminster Fuller | Sidney Rosen | |
| Your Private Sky: R Buckminster Fuller: Discourse | R.Buckminster Fuller, Claude Lichtenstein | |
| Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller: The Art of Design Science | R.Buckminster Fuller, Joachim Krausse (Editor), Claude Lichtenstein (Editor) | |
| Zome Geometry: Hands-on Learning with Zome Models | George W. Hart, Henri Picciotto |
Experiments
Overleaf CE
- TODO Setup Overleaf env on Digital Ocean
- TODO Update Overleaf to TeX Live scheme-full and commit to Docker for dev and production
- TODO Learn the template by Clemens Lode
FlowOSS
- TODO Setup (Flow OSS on Digital Ocean
- TODO Preload library with ePubs
- TODO View ePub from file location in the per-book directories (repo root, e.g.
grunch_of_giants/grunch_of_giants.epub)