I’ve been building a local-first humanities library on my TrueNAS NAS, Satchel: an offline archive of public-domain books, Project Gutenberg materials, and primary religious and historical texts.
The collection includes Jewish sources such as the Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud, and Rashi/Ramban commentary; early Christian writings; Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist texts; and volumes from The Sacred Books of the East.
The goal is preservation, local access, and comparative study: keeping important texts searchable and available without relying on a subscription, a platform, or an internet connection.
I’m organizing it carefully by tradition, work, translation or edition, and commentary so that the texts remain useful rather than becoming a pile of files.
A personal library should still work when the cloud, a website, or a company disappears.
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