/lit/ - Literature

I wish to preserve as much of Literature and the other Arts on a medium not bigger than a 2.5L coke bottle.
Google estimates that since the invention of the printing press 130 million books have been published.
One would start such a massive project not for the preservation of the Classics but for the preservation of those works almost forgotten by time.
As the archival medium I would use M-Discs, DVDs probably last longer, but Blu Rays hold 5 times more information.
At first we must assemble a team, each member has to compile the works of one canonical author, afterwards he compiles all the translations, this is the first stage.
In the second stage we start compiling the niche authors which influenced, was mentioned or was part of the same movement as those writers, together with the translations.
By now we have most probably collected all the works worth a damn, in the third stage the project gets split into many branches.
>scanning of works of art: painting, sculpture and architecture
>more visual books like manuals and encyclopedias, which might have been overlooked
>important historical newspapers and magazines such as Le Moniteur and whatever pulp Tom Sawyer was reading
>academic journals
>archeological artifacts, biology and geography
>music
>film, tv and videogames(these probably not)
>all the books until the end of ww2

All of these will get tied together beautifully with lots of cross references and the writing of an encyclopedia which allows you to get deeper and deeper into a subject until you are left with the books.
Perhaps I am retarded and all these works will take up a lot more space but I honestly would go much further preserving everything until Corona including all those retarded feel good psychology books you find in gas stations.
My wish is that everyman could afford these collection and I am pretty sure that we can compile everything written until the end of ww2 together with most visual arts.

Is there any project underway to conserve every word ever written until the 2000s digitally?
The internet is a big place, but most of it is used to keep Chad's and Stacey's beach day photos online.
I am afraid, that we will lose a lot of the written word, if we don t do something soon.
The classics will be preserved, but every once in a while you will come across a book written in the 16th century, that nobody knows about, or some translation that was published only once and which can t be found anywhere.
When I went to Ireland, I saw dozens of large tomes thrown and forgotten in the corner of a monastery. Since then I wonder what was hidden in them.
That was a big monastery, so of course those books were most probably studied, but I doubt, that all the medieval Codices have been read.
What stories may be buried in them?
I think that we should start a massive scanning project of everything from books, to painting, to sculptures and buildings, put all the information on ROM memory and hid them everywhere, deep inside the earth, in walls, on the lunar and martian surface, send them outside the solar system and give them as gifts to newborns as a symbol of inheriting the past.

> libraries
> make owning an ereader useless
heh dabs on you

Thinking about doing my STEM masters/postgrad at Trinity College specifically because it is /lit/
The idea of being educated in the same place as Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, etc. fills me with a bright light.
Also hoping being there will improve my writing and maybe help with getting published.

Has anyone else in /lit/ done something similar. Any book suggestions that somehow relate to this topic?

It scares me that the best book ever written is probably sitting unread in some dusty back shelf of the Bodleian or the Bibiotheque Nationale. Genius is never appreciated and understood in their own time, and it makes me wonder how many Prousts and Joyces slipped through the cracks.

Have you ever stumbled across an old book that no one has ever heard of but you are convinced is a masterpiece? Tell me about it.

He was the guy of old /lit/, certainly.

Two different mediums, two different sets of pros and cons. WhyNotDoBoth.jpg

Have all the masterpieces been discovered, or are there some secretly hidden away in old dusty library shelves?