A Message From the Team Behind the Tower of Babel

The Tower is free to read, forever. It stays that way because readers who can afford to help, do.

Dear Tower of Babel Patron,

The Tower of Babel, a project of Antarctic Labs, preserves the written record of humankind and makes essential texts from every culture, religion, and era free to everyone, everywhere. It already holds 2,557,923 works — books, sacred texts, declassified documents, papers, and transcripts — and grows every day.

The goal is simple to say and enormous to do: every work that matters, within everyone's reach. It takes servers, storage, bandwidth, years of steady preservation work — and readers like you.

The Tower is free to read, and reader support is what keeps it that way.

If you enjoy wandering our virtual stacks, please consider supporting the Tower today. Most readers never give, so every one-time or monthly contribution carries real weight.

Thank you for reading with us.

Joshua Almodovar
Founder, Antarctic Labs

One-time or monthly contributions of $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, or a custom amount are accepted through Stripe; Bitcoin and Ethereum options are shown on this page in the app.

You'll receive an email receipt for your records. One honest note: Antarctic Labs is not a registered charity, so contributions are not tax-deductible. Every dollar goes directly to the servers, storage, and preservation work that keep the library online and growing.

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