Alexandria-Gutenberg Release Note

We have updated our status on the Geyser crowdfunding site, with an official announcement: the Gutenberg edition of #Alexandria is now live, in production on:

https://alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/start

The next-alexandria domain will now reflect the next edition: Euler.

This MVP is the basis for printing, searching, interacting-with, and reading books on Nostr. They are now available for everyone on the planet, as a digital library stored on relays. Unlike with most digital libraries, the books are exportable as static files (we currently support PDF, HTML, EPUB, Markdown, and Asciidoc formats), but are stored dynamically: broken up into composable, replaceable, and cryptographically-signed sections.

Because we named this edition after Johannes Gutenberg, who invented moveable-type and spawned the art of book printing, we have followed in his footsteps: our first

print was the Bible. To prove:

• the performance of our system,
• the necessity of the hierarchical 30040 index event type,
• and the suitability of Nostr events for printing entire libraries,

we printed an edition of the largest Bible, breaking it down into an event for every verse.

Every single Bible verse can now be individually embedded, referenced, searched for, analyzed, commented-on, or highlighted, over Nostr's widely-distributed database, and with our Alexandria app.

We will soon be posting the road map for the Euler edition.

GM