A single great work rarely lives in a single book. The Odyssey exists as ancient Greek, as dozens of competing translations, as illustrated printings, commentaries, and retellings — scattered across libraries and scanning projects all over the internet. A megabook gathers those editions back into one volume, so you can move between a translator's prose, another's verse, the original language, and the illustrator's plates without leaving the reading chair.
Everything here was published before 1929 and is in the public domain in the United States. No paywalls, no licenses, no exceptions.
Every page of transcribed text sits beside the original scanned page it came from. Optical character recognition of old type is imperfect — when a word looks garbled, the source is right there to check. Some editions (ancient Greek, plate books) are presented as pure facsimiles, page by page.
The current shelf is drawn from the Library of Congress digitized books collection. Internet Archive and Google Books ingestion follow the same data contract and are next.