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==Included comics==
 
==Included comics==
* [[10: Pi Equals]]
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# [[10: Pi Equals]]
* [[242: The Difference]]
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# [[242: The Difference]]
* [[249: Chess Photo]]
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# [[249: Chess Photo]]
* [[123: Centrifugal Force]]
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# [[123: Centrifugal Force]]
* [[214: The Problem with Wikipedia]]
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# [[214: The Problem with Wikipedia]]
* [[221: Random Number]]
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# [[221: Random Number]]
* [[231: Cat Proximity]]
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# [[231: Cat Proximity]]
* [[20: Ferret]]
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# [[20: Ferret]]
* [[21: Kepler]]
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# [[21: Kepler]]
* [[30: Donner]]
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# [[30: Donner]]
* [[37: Hyphen]]
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# [[37: Hyphen]]
* [[82: Frame]]
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# [[82: Frame]]
* [[44: Love]]
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# [[44: Love]]
* [[54: Science]]
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# [[54: Science]]
* [[55: Useless]]
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# [[55: Useless]]
* [[85: Paths]]
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# [[85: Paths]]
* [[105: Parallel Universe]]
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# [[105: Parallel Universe]]
* [[108: M.C. Hammer Slide]]
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# [[108: M.C. Hammer Slide]]
* [[112: Baring My Heart]]
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# [[112: Baring My Heart]]
* [[114: Computational Linguists]]
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# [[114: Computational Linguists]]
* [[120: Dating Service]]
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# [[120: Dating Service]]
* [[116: City]]
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# [[116: City]]
* [[117: Pong]]
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# [[117: Pong]]
* [[124: Blogofractal]]
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# [[124: Blogofractal]]
* [[128: dPain over dt]]
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# [[128: dPain over dt]]
* [[134: Myspace]]
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# [[134: Myspace]]
* [[135: Substitute]]
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# [[135: Substitute]]
* [[136: Science Fair]]
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# [[136: Science Fair]]
* [[137: Dreams]]
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# [[137: Dreams]]
* [[138: Pointers]]
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# [[138: Pointers]]
* [[149: Sandwich]]
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# [[149: Sandwich]]
* [[152: Hamster Ball]]
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# [[152: Hamster Ball]]
* [[160: Penny Arcade Parody]]
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# [[160: Penny Arcade Parody]]
* [[153: Cryptography]]
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# [[153: Cryptography]]
* [[159: Boombox]]
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# [[159: Boombox]]
* [[157: Filler Art]]
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# [[157: Filler Art]]
* [[161: Accident]]
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# [[161: Accident]]
* [[162: Angular Momentum]]
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# [[162: Angular Momentum]]
* [[184: Matrix Transform]]
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# [[184: Matrix Transform]]
* [[163: Donald Knuth]]
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# [[163: Donald Knuth]]
* [[165: Turn Signals]]
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# [[165: Turn Signals]]
* [[201: Christmas GPS]]
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# [[201: Christmas GPS]]
* [[177: Alice and Bob]]
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# [[177: Alice and Bob]]
* [[173: Movie Seating]]
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# [[173: Movie Seating]]
* [[179: e to the pi times i]]
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# [[179: e to the pi times i]]
* [[191: Lojban]]
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# [[191: Lojban]]
* [[210: 90's Flowchart]]
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# [[210: 90's Flowchart]]
* [[200: Bill Nye]]
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# [[200: Bill Nye]]
* [[182: Nash]]
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# [[182: Nash]]
* [[180: Canada]]
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# [[180: Canada]]
* [[215: Letting Go]]
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# [[215: Letting Go]]
* [[239: Blagofaire]]
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# [[239: Blagofaire]]
* [[225: Open Source]]
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# [[225: Open Source]]
* [[230: Hamiltonian]]
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# [[230: Hamiltonian]]
* [[240: Dream Girl]]
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# [[240: Dream Girl]]
* [[247: Factoring the Time]]
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# [[247: Factoring the Time]]
* [[248: Hypotheticals]]
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# [[248: Hypotheticals]]
* [[253: Highway Engineer Pranks]]
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# [[253: Highway Engineer Pranks]]
* [[257: Code Talkers]]
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# [[257: Code Talkers]]
* [[258: Conspiracy Theories]]
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# [[258: Conspiracy Theories]]
* [[262: IN UR REALITY]]
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# [[262: IN UR REALITY]]
* [[276: Fixed Width]]
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# [[276: Fixed Width]]
* [[274: With Apologies to The Who]]
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# [[274: With Apologies to The Who]]
* [[279: Pickup Lines]]
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# [[279: Pickup Lines]]
* [[275: Thoughts]]
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# [[275: Thoughts]]
* [[77: Bored with the Internet]]
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# [[77: Bored with the Internet]]
* [[150: Grownups]]
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# [[150: Grownups]]
* [[167: Nihilism]]
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# [[167: Nihilism]]
* [[144: Parody Week: A Softer World]]
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# [[144: Parody Week: A Softer World]]
* [[209: Kayak]]
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# [[209: Kayak]]
* [[202: YouTube]]
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# [[202: YouTube]]
* [[285: Wikipedian Protester]]
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# [[285: Wikipedian Protester]]
* [[472: House of Pancakes]]
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# [[472: House of Pancakes]]
* [[556: Alternative Energy Revolution]]
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# [[556: Alternative Energy Revolution]]
* [[442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel]]
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# [[442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel]]
* [[264: Choices: Part 1]]
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# [[264: Choices: Part 1]]
* [[265: Choices: Part 2]]
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# [[265: Choices: Part 2]]
* [[266: Choices: Part 3]]
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# [[266: Choices: Part 3]]
* [[267: Choices: Part 4]]
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# [[267: Choices: Part 4]]
* [[268: Choices: Part 5]]
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# [[268: Choices: Part 5]]
* [[282: Organic Fuel]]
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# [[282: Organic Fuel]]
* [[280: Librarians]]
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# [[280: Librarians]]
* [[320: 28-Hour Day]]
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# [[320: 28-Hour Day]]
* [[316: Loud Sex]]
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# [[316: Loud Sex]]
* [[284: Tape Measure]]
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# [[284: Tape Measure]]
* [[287: NP-Complete]]
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# [[287: NP-Complete]]
* [[290: Fucking Blue Shells]]
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# [[290: Fucking Blue Shells]]
* [[303: Compiling]]
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# [[303: Compiling]]
* [[291: Dignified]]
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# [[291: Dignified]]
* [[305: Rule 34]]
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# [[305: Rule 34]]
* [[327: Exploits of a Mom]]
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# [[327: Exploits of a Mom]]
* [[333: Getting Out of Hand]]
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# [[333: Getting Out of Hand]]
* [[323: Ballmer Peak]]
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# [[323: Ballmer Peak]]
* [[322: Pix Plz]]
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# [[322: Pix Plz]]
* [[325: A-Minus-Minus]]
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# [[325: A-Minus-Minus]]
* [[340: Fight]]
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# [[340: Fight]]
* [[356: Nerd Sniping]]
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# [[356: Nerd Sniping]]
* [[349: Success]]
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# [[349: Success]]
* [[366: Your Mom]]
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# [[366: Your Mom]]
* [[369: Dangers]]
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# [[369: Dangers]]
* [[372: To Be Wanted]]
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# [[372: To Be Wanted]]
* [[374: Journal]]
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# [[374: Journal]]
* [[377: Journal 2]]
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# [[377: Journal 2]]
* [[373: The Data So Far]]
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# [[373: The Data So Far]]
* [[376: Bug]]
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# [[376: Bug]]
* [[380: Emoticon]]
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# [[380: Emoticon]]
* [[387: Advanced Technology]]
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# [[387: Advanced Technology]]
* [[386: Duty Calls]]
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# [[386: Duty Calls]]
* [[412: Startled]]
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# [[412: Startled]]
* [[389: Keeping Time]]
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# [[389: Keeping Time]]
* [[397: Unscientific]]
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# [[397: Unscientific]]
* [[391: Anti-Mindvirus]]
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# [[391: Anti-Mindvirus]]
* [[393: Ultimate Game]]
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# [[393: Ultimate Game]]
* [[416: Zealous Autoconfig]]
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# [[416: Zealous Autoconfig]]
* [[396: The Ring]]
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# [[396: The Ring]]
* [[398: Tap That Ass]]
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# [[398: Tap That Ass]]
* [[420: Jealousy]]
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# [[420: Jealousy]]
* [[429: Fantasy]]
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# [[429: Fantasy]]
* [[434: xkcd Goes to the Airport]]
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# [[434: xkcd Goes to the Airport]]
* [[435: Purity]]
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# [[435: Purity]]
* [[445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs]]
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# [[445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs]]
* [[475: Further Boomerang Difficulties]]
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# [[475: Further Boomerang Difficulties]]
* [[451: Impostor]]
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# [[451: Impostor]]
* [[452: Mission]]
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# [[452: Mission]]
* [[463: Voting Machines]]
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# [[463: Voting Machines]]
* [[500: Election]]
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# [[500: Election]]
* [[481: Listen to Yourself]]
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# [[481: Listen to Yourself]]
* [[486: I am Not a Ninja]]
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# [[486: I am Not a Ninja]]
* [[487: Numerical Sex Positions]]
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# [[487: Numerical Sex Positions]]
* [[505: A Bunch of Rocks]]
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# [[505: A Bunch of Rocks]]
* [[488: Steal This Comic]]
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# [[488: Steal This Comic]]
* [[511: Sleet]]
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# [[511: Sleet]]
* [[530: I'm An Idiot]]
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# [[530: I'm An Idiot]]
* [[513: Friends]]
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# [[513: Friends]]
* [[518: Flow Charts]]
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# [[518: Flow Charts]]
* [[540: Base System]]
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# [[540: Base System]]
* [[569: Borders]]
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# [[569: Borders]]
* [[565: Security Question]]
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# [[565: Security Question]]
* [[552: Correlation]]
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# [[552: Correlation]]
* [[559: No Pun Intended]]
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# [[559: No Pun Intended]]
* [[591: Troll Slayer]]
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# [[591: Troll Slayer]]
* [[571: Can't Sleep]]
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# [[571: Can't Sleep]]
* [[592: Drama]]
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# [[592: Drama]]
* [[585: Outreach]]
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# [[585: Outreach]]
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==

Revision as of 19:22, 18 March 2025

The cover of the book
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xkcd: volume 0 is the first xkcd book! It features selections from the first 600 comics, including various author and fan favorites. It was lovingly assembled from high-resolution original scans of the comics (the mouseover text is discreetly included), and features a lot of doodles, notes, and puzzles in the margins.

xkcd: volume 0 is a book by Randall Munroe released on August 24, 2010. It features a collection of comics personally chosen by the artist from the initial 600 entries of the webcomic. These comics were assembled from high-resolution original scans and include the original or, sometimes, a different title text. The book is available to read in full on the Internet Archive.

The book is published by Breadpig, a company founded by Randall's friend Alexis, and their portion of the profits will go to build a school in Laos through the charity Room to Read.

Included comics

  1. 10: Pi Equals
  2. 242: The Difference
  3. 249: Chess Photo
  4. 123: Centrifugal Force
  5. 214: The Problem with Wikipedia
  6. 221: Random Number
  7. 231: Cat Proximity
  8. 20: Ferret
  9. 21: Kepler
  10. 30: Donner
  11. 37: Hyphen
  12. 82: Frame
  13. 44: Love
  14. 54: Science
  15. 55: Useless
  16. 85: Paths
  17. 105: Parallel Universe
  18. 108: M.C. Hammer Slide
  19. 112: Baring My Heart
  20. 114: Computational Linguists
  21. 120: Dating Service
  22. 116: City
  23. 117: Pong
  24. 124: Blogofractal
  25. 128: dPain over dt
  26. 134: Myspace
  27. 135: Substitute
  28. 136: Science Fair
  29. 137: Dreams
  30. 138: Pointers
  31. 149: Sandwich
  32. 152: Hamster Ball
  33. 160: Penny Arcade Parody
  34. 153: Cryptography
  35. 159: Boombox
  36. 157: Filler Art
  37. 161: Accident
  38. 162: Angular Momentum
  39. 184: Matrix Transform
  40. 163: Donald Knuth
  41. 165: Turn Signals
  42. 201: Christmas GPS
  43. 177: Alice and Bob
  44. 173: Movie Seating
  45. 179: e to the pi times i
  46. 191: Lojban
  47. 210: 90's Flowchart
  48. 200: Bill Nye
  49. 182: Nash
  50. 180: Canada
  51. 215: Letting Go
  52. 239: Blagofaire
  53. 225: Open Source
  54. 230: Hamiltonian
  55. 240: Dream Girl
  56. 247: Factoring the Time
  57. 248: Hypotheticals
  58. 253: Highway Engineer Pranks
  59. 257: Code Talkers
  60. 258: Conspiracy Theories
  61. 262: IN UR REALITY
  62. 276: Fixed Width
  63. 274: With Apologies to The Who
  64. 279: Pickup Lines
  65. 275: Thoughts
  66. 77: Bored with the Internet
  67. 150: Grownups
  68. 167: Nihilism
  69. 144: Parody Week: A Softer World
  70. 209: Kayak
  71. 202: YouTube
  72. 285: Wikipedian Protester
  73. 472: House of Pancakes
  74. 556: Alternative Energy Revolution
  75. 442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel
  76. 264: Choices: Part 1
  77. 265: Choices: Part 2
  78. 266: Choices: Part 3
  79. 267: Choices: Part 4
  80. 268: Choices: Part 5
  81. 282: Organic Fuel
  82. 280: Librarians
  83. 320: 28-Hour Day
  84. 316: Loud Sex
  85. 284: Tape Measure
  86. 287: NP-Complete
  87. 290: Fucking Blue Shells
  88. 303: Compiling
  89. 291: Dignified
  90. 305: Rule 34
  91. 327: Exploits of a Mom
  92. 333: Getting Out of Hand
  93. 323: Ballmer Peak
  94. 322: Pix Plz
  95. 325: A-Minus-Minus
  96. 340: Fight
  97. 356: Nerd Sniping
  98. 349: Success
  99. 366: Your Mom
  100. 369: Dangers
  101. 372: To Be Wanted
  102. 374: Journal
  103. 377: Journal 2
  104. 373: The Data So Far
  105. 376: Bug
  106. 380: Emoticon
  107. 387: Advanced Technology
  108. 386: Duty Calls
  109. 412: Startled
  110. 389: Keeping Time
  111. 397: Unscientific
  112. 391: Anti-Mindvirus
  113. 393: Ultimate Game
  114. 416: Zealous Autoconfig
  115. 396: The Ring
  116. 398: Tap That Ass
  117. 420: Jealousy
  118. 429: Fantasy
  119. 434: xkcd Goes to the Airport
  120. 435: Purity
  121. 445: I Am Not Good with Boomerangs
  122. 475: Further Boomerang Difficulties
  123. 451: Impostor
  124. 452: Mission
  125. 463: Voting Machines
  126. 500: Election
  127. 481: Listen to Yourself
  128. 486: I am Not a Ninja
  129. 487: Numerical Sex Positions
  130. 505: A Bunch of Rocks
  131. 488: Steal This Comic
  132. 511: Sleet
  133. 530: I'm An Idiot
  134. 513: Friends
  135. 518: Flow Charts
  136. 540: Base System
  137. 569: Borders
  138. 565: Security Question
  139. 552: Correlation
  140. 559: No Pun Intended
  141. 591: Troll Slayer
  142. 571: Can't Sleep
  143. 592: Drama
  144. 585: Outreach

Transcript

Front cover

[A bit above the middle of the page, there is the title of the book with the subtitle in a smaller font size below it. Neither the title nor the subtitle are capitalized.]
xkcd
volume 0
[In the bottom right of the page stand Megan, on the right, and Cueball, on the left, holding hands. Cueball looks away from Megan, to the left, and Megan looks away from Cueball, to the right.]

Back cover

[There are several otherwise nondescript gray rectangles on which the characters stand on. Red spiders are present throughout the panel.]
[Two of these rectangles are attached from the area around the right corner and going off of the cover, in an L-shape. Black Hat stands on it, taking notes on a journal. Twenty-three red spiders lie on the object. Nine of them are clustered in the inner L corner, four of them forming chains. An additional red spider has just fallen off of the object from the right.]
[To L shape's right, in the air, Cory Doctorow in his red suit is shown punching a red spider.]

Other non-comic content

The book also contains other content than just the comics, usually in red.

The bottom of page one has the following characters

CNEG BAR BS RVTUG VA URK: RR AVAR RVTUG SVIR BAR BAR RVTUG.

The bottom of page two, under the strip Chess Photo, has

http://xkcd.com/chesscoaster/

On page 10, next to the comic Centrifugal Force, there is a drawing of Cueball leaning out of a hot air ballon above three mountains.

The bottom right of page 11 contains Cueball sitting next to a block of characters that is four characters tall and eight characters wide. The characters are

I0TAE/KE[New line]
20IBSWIY[New line]
ODE65TN8[New line]
CO25.RAP

[Note: I could not differentiate the 1’s from the “I”’s and the 0’s from the “O”’s in this section, so this transcription may not be entirely accurate.]

Page 12 contains a drawing of Cueball holding a cat next to the comic Cat Proximity. He is saying

KITTY KITTY KITTY

On page 111, below the comic Useless, there is the text

CY-O CMLROOCXN. YR M.AOGP. NRK.W ABE ,CYDRGY M.AOGP.M.BY YD.P. JAB X. BR OJC.BJ.V <D.B CY JRM.O YR NRK.W ,.-P. ANN CB YD. EAPTV [[TCBO.F

On the bottom of page 1000, near the comic M.C. Hammer Slide, there is a drawing of Cueball doing the M.C. Hammer slide in a hamster ball with the caption M.C. Hamster written below it.

On page 1010, there is a drawing of Cueball on a one wheeler approaching a ramp to the right

On the page 1012, under the comic DPain Over Dt, there is the text in braille

⠊⠞⠀⠞⠁⠅⠑⠎⠀⠍⠕⠗⠑⠀⠞⠊⠍⠑⠀⠞⠓⠁⠝⠀⠽⠕⠥⠀⠑⠭⠏⠑⠉⠞ ⠃⠥⠞ ⠇⠑⠎⠎ ⠞⠓⠁⠝⠀⠽⠕⠥⠀⠋⠑⠁⠗⠲

The following pages have the respective 2 characters in the upper right corner

101010 grey LY
101120 red IK
102000 red GU
110100 red EH
110102 red DO
110111 red CR

The bottom of page 10020 under the Dream Girl strip, has 772A3A35 DEF88CA7 0BDFD186 20B05684 934721F8 F64762FD
03F8D76B 3FA0CB8C 2756B2D0 A9F00A1B CFF1603E DB05426C

The bottom of page 10112 has the string
0011001001011100000101100000110111100100001010100110011000010010110011

The bottom of page 111000 (2nd last page) says
123 B
followed by an arrow bouncing off a vertical line, and the string
VRDSTLRBYSMRLUVRXGCFHZWXKYNHYKLKWMCLRMFIKOZAIYXJWITOYOVN

Page 110120 contains the following poem rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
THE START OF THE TENTH-FAVORITE WORD USED BY BENDER
THE TOON THAT WENT SOUTH WHILE COMMANDED BY ENDER
THE NUMBER OF LIGHTS THAT PICARD SAID WERE ON
AND THE CLASS OF THE PLANET WHERE KIRK SHOUTED "KHAAAN!"
THE RINGS FOR THE MEN MINUS RINGS FOR THE ELVES
AND THE PRODUCT MOD 10 OF A FIVESOME OF TWELVES
THE END OF A CODE NES GAMERS KNOW
AND THE BASE USED TO MODEL HOW QUICKLY THINGS GROW
WHEN THEY'RE XOR'D TOGETHER THE CHECKSUM IS "E"
WHICH WILL TELL YOU YOU'VE GOT THE PENULTIMATE KEY

See also

And talk/discussion pages for

Other pages also have extra text, drawings or glyphs.