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Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Over 350GB of ancient & medieval history books.
Over 350GB of ancient & medieval history books.
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Hello!
For those who are not aware, this is Bibliotheca Alexandrina - a project born in 2008 with the aim to collect and share history books. Now, there are lots of sites where you can easily find some of the ebooks but none of them offer what you're getting here. This is not just a copy-paste of random books from different sites; ALL the books have not only been renamed and sorted but also tagged to show how it was obtained.
Many of the books I've been working with from 2008 aren't available nowadays and I guess in few years half of those formats will be obsolete; yet I would love to give you a nice collection for the year to come without having to roam in unknown lands.
Since the last update (March 2020) this collection had quite a big addition. Due to the pandemic many publishers opened their access and a huge amount of books was ripped; the previous update was 165 GB, this one is over 300 GB.
* All the books have been named according to a standard
* Replaced thousands of books with proper retail
* Removed cheap publishers (Charles River Editors, Hourly History..) // books widely available for free with just 30 pages inside
Legend:
[Retail] - Books that I have obtained myself and removed the DRM
[Retail WM] - Books that I have obtained myself, have the DRM removed but have a watermark on it
(Retail) - Books downloaded from a private tracker and are perfect retail
(retail) - Books downloaded from other sources tagged as retail (DRM might have been removed without calibre..)
[Missing] - Forthcoming books or books that weren't available at the moment of the compilation of this collection.
Please note that while Retail means purchased from a book source such as amazon, kobo or other official sellers it doesn't make the book is "good looking"; it might even be worse than a self-edited one.
* Legend for Series
Publisher, Series title (Number of books in the series including forthcoming)
[Complete] at the end of the series means all the books have been collected
Example:
Routledge's Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World (15 Books) [Complete]
Brill's Religions in the Graeco-Roman World (194 Books)
Few series have a wide range of topics which I did not include in this collection as they are totally unrelated.
Routledge Key Guides
Routledge Revivals
Large series such as Routledge Variorum Collected Studies (over 1000 books), Mnemosyne Supplements (over 400 books) and The New Middle Ages aren't finished, will work on them for the next release forthcoming in June 2021
What you can expect on the next release is
* Replacement of non-retail with proper retails
* Polishing the series and finding as many [Missing] books as possible
* Overall editing
I really appreciate any kind of help, from misplaced books to correcting typos and any incorrect information given.
For this pourpose we created a discord group -
Join the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Discord Server!
Check out the Bibliotheca Alexandrina community on Discord - hang out with 3,474 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.discord.gg
Hello!
First of all i want to thank for all the feedback i received in these 6 months, it helped more than it actually looks like. Really. Along with feedback i want to thank users who contributed financially, with their time and most important these who provided rare/unique book scans.
From the previous update (December 2020) the library got an huge overhault and i strongly suggest you to delete anything you've might have downloaded and just go straight with this one:
* All the books have been named according to a standard, for an easy search. Some books still do have a long path name
* Found hundreds of books that were only available as scan
* Replaced thousands of books with proper retail
* Removed cheap publishers (Charles River Editors, Hourly History..) // books widely available for free (ie Gutenberg)
From December 2021 the goal is to release a main library and update it further with smaller packages.
Legend:
[Retail] - Books that I have obtained myself and removed the DRM
[Retail WM] - Books that I have obtained myself, have the DRM removed but have a watermark on it
(Retail) - Books downloaded from a private tracker and are perfect retail
(retail) - Books downloaded from other sources tagged as retail (DRM might have been removed without calibre..)
[Missing] - Forthcoming books or books that weren't available at the moment of the compilation of this collection.
[Scan, Missing] - No digital version available
[Unpublished, Missing] - Publisher didn't release the book. No version available at all.
[Complete] - All the books have been found
† Series terminated or discontinued by the publisher
.TXT files are used just as placeholder for forthcoming/missing books
Large series such as Routledge Variorum Collected Studies (over 1000 books), Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (over 500 books) are still incomplete, i'll give it a proper look for the next release.
Few series such as Routledge Key Guides and Routledge Revivals have a wide range of topics which I did not include in this collection as they are totally unrelated.
What you can expect on the next release (due Christmas 2021) is
* Further replacement of non-retail with proper retails
* Polishing the series and finding as many [Missing] and Scans as possible
* Overall editing
* I'm planning to pay users to provide scans of missing books, here any contribute is really welcome.
* Shortening books names. This will hurt me more than anything but i have to do it. Or try.
Nevertheless any kind of help, suggestion or just a note on typos is more than appreciate.
Last but not least we created a discord group, don't expect there to be much, we use it as feedback for the collections :)
Join the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Discord Server!
Check out the Bibliotheca Alexandrina community on Discord - hang out with 3,474 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
Enjoy!
