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 We're calling it "Alexandria" because it's going to be the new, greater library. And we're starting with the Bible because obviously.

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 I wrote a thing.
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 Absolutely fantastic. This is exciting. Looking forward to helping if possible. 💜🙏 
 Anyone can help, beginning immediately.

Simply publish individual chapters of your favorite books as long-form/articles (using something like Habla.news or Highlighter.com or Yakihonne). Just make sure to have the title contain the name of the book, so that you can easily find them all later, to tie them together with a header note. The header is just general information about the book (author, title, etc.) and a list of notes/chapters in the reading order.

Make the title something like "Anne of Green Gables: Ch 1" or whatnot. If the file is too big to process (I don't know what some relays have as limits), then it would just need to be Ch 1.1 Ch 1.2 and etc.

And make sure to add wss:://thecitadel.nostr1.com to the relay list, in whichever app you use. 
 Someone gotta make a tool for converting epub and pdf to nostr notes. 
 Yes, would just need to convert them to markdown and then write events with them as content. 
 Ok that thing might really be huge 
 Still getting a blank page... 
 Even in Habla or are you just harrassing @PABLOF7z to get the bug fix done faster? 😂 
 LOL - no - but it *did* load this morning!

(Not sure I understand the new moniker though...what's Despota Svezda?) 
 Mleku thinks I'm bossy, so he calls me Despot Stella (that's my name) in Serbian. 😅  
 haha i was amused a lot when you used the words i gave... 

it's really from the latin/italian meaning of the word Stella

and seriously it is the name of a street in Belgrade https://www.planplus.rs/beograd/ulica/bulevar-despota-stefana/2826 a major street

i think it's the nearest equivalent in proper serbian to Empress

anyway, it was just because you have that whole manager thing going on

and i like bossy girls anyway 
 Bossy girls totally underrated fr fr no cap. 
 Too funny...😃  
 well, carica (tsaritsa) is more usual, or imperatorka...

fun fact, in balkan corn is named after this, "tsarevitsa"

not sure whether it's because of the yellow, or the crown, or what, but that's the word in yugoslavia and bulgaria

so it occurs to me there is a fun link between tsarevitsa and the corn, and by the by also gold 
 Damn I'm too slow. I wanted to create a wiki client after I'm finished with Voyage and I also planned to call it "Alexandria" haha.
But even better if other people are doing it. I'd rather contribute to other projects than starting my own. 
 Well, Alexandria is a project, not merely a client. It's this collection of books. It's the Nostr library.
A wiki isn't a library, it's an encyclopedia, so I feel like it fits our project better than yours. 😜 

We're planning on making a client with the same name, to read and publish the books, but someone might beat us to the punch. 🤷‍♀️  Maybe you're that someone... 
 After all, there are already a bunch of wiki projects. Why be an also-ran, when you can be first-past-the-gate? 
 It would just need the ability to show 30023, 30024, 30040 and 30041 events. And maybe allow for highlighting/quoting/replying to those notes and some nice book and article navigation, and publishing 30023s and 30040s (including their linked/embedded notes) as ePub or PDF.

So, if someone writes a 30040 with the metadata "title: Anne of Green Gables, author: L.M. Montgomery" and then listed 30023s and/or 30041s as content, the script would just use the 30040 as the index page required for the ePub and pull in the content of the linked articles.

We're already publishing books under the new events, so anyone who build a client for it would have immediate, high-quality content and grateful users. 
 Do I understand correctly that you're using 30023 for the individual pages/chapters/chunks of a book? If so pls consider using a different kind number. It would suck for blog clients if they had to deal with all these book fragments. If they want to support it they should be able to opt-in and not be forced. 
 We also have kind 30041. I'm publishing under 30041, but everyone is free to publish as articles under 30023, to make sure that they are displayed and in case they aren't tech-savvy enough to deal with the current upload script (most people won't be).
Same way people insisted upon writing looooong kind 01 notes, and are only moving to 30023, now that more clients have implemented the event.

The publishing will continue until the clients improve. 
 You've convinced me for some late night coding 😂 
 If they come, you will build it. 😀  
 Is there a spec for 30040 written somewhere? 
 https://wikifreedia.xyz/nkbip-01 
 It's already been listed in the event register, for a while. 
 The article header should be described within the event tags. A stringified content is awkward. 
 The content could be used for specifying the formatting. 
 I asked @liminal  that, yesterday.

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 When you recognize the level of bullshit emmiting from this note. You just gotta step back, look at it and take in all its glory.
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 We are 💯 bullshit on Nostr. 
 Kinda feeling inspired to add “on the origin of species” to the library… 
 Please! I'm still working on a script to upload individual fragments, but nostr:nprofile1qqsd6ejdteqpvse63ntf7qz6u9yqspp4z7ymt8094urzwm0x2ceaxxgprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qguwaehxw309a6xsetrd96xzer9dshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hshhq5j3 has a workflow to do it manually. Seems cumbersome, but works. More examples for us to work with 🔥 
 Yes, just make sure to include any hard returns as characters.

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 Please do! Make sure you include wss://thecitadel.nostr1.com in your relays, so that we also get a copy. 
 Sure is a beaut 
 this is a good primer on what we're trying to do.
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 Thank you 😊 
 Thank you 😊