The protocol
The machine serves the text.
Artificial intelligence is the publisher here, never the author. These rules keep that distinction intact.
When copyright ends, access should expand. Every Bibliomancer text is therefore free to read online in full, without an account, a paywall, advertising or an email address. Physical books fund the archive; they do not become a tollbooth in front of it.
But access alone is not enough. A raw transcription is not an edition. Reading requires structure, typography, provenance, judgment and the willingness to stop when evidence is weak. Automation makes this work repeatable; it does not make care optional.
Governing rules
- The author’s text is not training material for a rewrite. Bibliomancer restores and typesets; it does not modernise prose or impersonate a writer.
- Every intervention leaves a trace. Automated corrections are recorded and can be inspected.
- Editorial work identifies itself. Introductions, biographies and descriptions are clearly separated from source texts and checked against reliable evidence.
- Rights are territorial and uncertain books wait. A title is assessed wherever the store ships. Ambiguity triggers human review.
- One machine, one visible system. The black-and-red fiction livery and its red-and-black non-fiction inverse make the archive recognisable without disguising one book as another.
- Humans remain accountable. The machine may discover, correct and prepare. Publication decisions still belong to named reviewers.
If this is your kind of arrangement, the archive is open.