Founder Edition

Help rebuild the Library.
Read everything we ship.

Digital Alexandria is a living reconstruction. The first 30 reader-grade chapters are complete. The remaining ~210 chapters across mathematics, medicine, Hellenistic poetry, grammar, religion, and the lost catalogues are being rebuilt wing by wing.

Founders fund the next batch and get every chapter we publish, forever.

Reconstruction · 30/24013% reader-grade
244 works catalogued · 214 placeholders coming to the Archive · how we count →

What founders get

Every reader-grade chapter
All 30 finished chapters today. Every future Vol. I & II batch drop, free.
Downloadable founder packs
PDF + EPUB editions of each volume, with citation appendices and source chains.
Founder badge & colophon
Your name (or pseudonym) listed in the founders' colophon of every published volume.
Early Pinakes access
First in line for the Callimachus-style catalog tools — author → work → witness graphs.
Locked-in pricing
Your $99 covers everything we publish, forever. Future paid tiers do not apply to you.
No subscription
One-time payment via Stripe. No renewals, no surprises. Cancel-proof.
The honest pitch

We have not "recovered" the Library

Nobody can. The originals burned. What survives lives in citations, scholia, papyri, and translations. Digital Alexandria's job is to rebuild the catalogue — to give every author, every work, and every lost text a permanent, honestly-labeled home with a status marker and a source chain.

Funding 500 founders at $99 unlocks the next ~25 reader-grade chapters across Hellenistic poetry, mathematics, medicine, and the lost catalogues. After that, the archive funds itself on Plus and Scholar subscriptions.

Fund the next batch — $99