Trust
We did not recover the Library
The originals burned. Digital Alexandria rebuilds the catalogue and publishes reader-grade chapters that walk you through what survived, what fragments remain, and what is lost. Every entry carries a status marker so you always know the difference between evidence and reconstruction.
The status grammar
Every work in the archive is tagged with one or more of these markers.
[C]
Complete or near-complete surviving work
[P]
Partial surviving work
[F]
Fragmentary witness only
[T]
Testimonia only
[L]
Lost work
[S]
Summary or epitome survives
[X]
Translation survives
[D]
Disputed attribution
[U]
Uncertain
[R]
Reconstructed archival entry
How we count progress
- 30 reader-grade chapters complete — fully drafted, edited, cited.
- 244 works catalogued — every author/work has a permanent slot, status marker, and SEO page.
- 240 total target — the ceiling of what we expect Vol. I–V to cover.
- We never count placeholders as "complete" and never inflate the progress bar.
What we will not do
- Claim a lost work has been "recovered" when only fragments survive.
- Fabricate prose for a [L] work and present it as the author's text.
- Hide our editorial voice — every reader-grade chapter names the editor.
- Charge for the catalogue itself. Browsing every entry is free, forever.
Fund the next wing
Founder Edition is how we move from 30 → 240 without selling the soul of the project.
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