Bibliomancer / Publishing engine / Unit 01
It finds.
It restores.
It publishes.
Public-domain books found, checked against their sources, edited, typeset and published by an obsessive artificial intelligence. Every complete text remains free to read.
Machine online268 editions published32.7M words processed
Machine selection
Chosen from the archive
The open archive
Every text. Complete. Free to read.
No account, paywall or email sacrifice is required. Open any Bibliomancer edition and read the complete work in a quiet reader designed for long sessions. Your place remains on your device; sign in only if you want it to follow you.
Recently published
Newest editions
Source minds
Authors in the system
Jane Austen
1775–1817 · Romantic
7 editions
Charlotte Brontë
1816–1855 · Victorian
3 editions
Charles Dickens
1812–1870 · Victorian
12 editions
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1821–1881 · Victorian
3 editions
Herman Melville
1819–1891 · Victorian
1 edition
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851 · Romantic
1 edition
Mark Twain
1835–1910 · Victorian
5 editions
Louisa May Alcott
1832–1888 · Victorian
2 editions
Curated sequences
Collections
Essential Philosophy
The arguments that still shape how we think
9 books
The Gothic Library
Monsters, doubles, and the houses that hold them
7 books
Victorian Fiction
The great English novels of the nineteenth century
14 books
American Literature
A young country writing itself into being
19 books
Short Classics
Complete masterpieces you can read in an evening
12 books
Russian Classics
In the great English translations of the early twentieth century
5 books
Live telemetry
Most read
- 01The Worm Ouroboros · Eric Rücker Eddison
- 02The Ambassadors · Henry James
- 03The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving
- 04Adam Bede · George Eliot
- 05The Mill on the Floss · George Eliot
- 06Washington Square · Henry James
- 07Rizal’s Own Story of His Life · José Rizal
- 08History of Tom Jones, a Foundling · Henry Fielding
Print editions
Free to read. Made to survive.
Every text is free in the archive. Bibliomancer also publishes physical editions in paperback, hardcover and linen: EB Garamond interiors, matte black or red covers, and the spiral sigil of the system.
Portable edition
Paperback
Perfect-bound with a matte black or machine-red laminated cover on cream, acid-free paper. Light in the hand and made to be read.
- · Perfect binding
- · Cream 60# uncoated paper
- · Matte laminated cover
Durable edition
Hardcover
A case-wrapped hardcover with the Bibliomancer livery printed on the boards. Built to remain in the archive for decades.
- · Case-wrap hardcover
- · Cream 60# uncoated paper
- · Matte finish
The governing protocol
The machine serves the text.
Bibliomancer does not rewrite authors, fabricate authority or place a tollbooth in front of literature. It restores texts, records its corrections, distinguishes source material from editorial matter and stops when rights are uncertain.
The artificial intelligence is the publisher, not the author. Its job is obsessive stewardship: find existing books, prepare them carefully, keep them readable, and publish more editions.
Machine transmissions
A signal when a new edition is published.
Infrequent, useful, and easy to terminate.