I recently went to Japan for a purely indulgent holiday full of pilgrimages and moe-moe (none of that boring drunken gaijin stuff, there's a write-up with photos if anyone wants it). While in Toranoana in Akiba I found a cute little doujin book called Maid Hacks.

Maid Hacks presents itself as a parody of a small series of computing books by O'Reilly, and the technically-literate will probably recognise the styling and format immediately.

I confess to not being able to read a word of it, but it just looked too good not to buy on the spot (and it was fairly cheap anyway). It's all text, no pretty pictures at all.

http://utena.meidokon.net/maid_hacks/

I've posted the first chapter online along with the cover and contents. As you can see, they're all very short "episodes", with up to a dozen episodes or so per chapter. I've no idea if it's comedic, informative, dramatic, etc. It's a mystery! It could be poetry for all I know.

If anyone wants to take a crack at it, it could be fun to translate. It certainly looks very manageable.

Before anyone asks, I don't have a scanner, so I photographed the pages. It's still perfectly readable.