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Abstract:
Downloadable version of entire website, designed for use on your computer without need for internet. Download direct from archive.org, or by BitTorrent.
Notes:
As this archive contains some dead links still (e.g. in /curzon_persia), a new version will be made at the end of 2024.

See also the database download.


Download Bahá'í Library Online:

Offline Archive of All Files

2024-09

Contents
  1. Download
  2. Instructions
  3. About
  4. Uses
  5. Partial contents list

Bahai Library Offline

1. Download

Download files at archive.org/details/bahai-library-offline-files.

Or download torrent file: bahai-library-offline-files_archive.torrent. [65 GB]

Downloading by BitTorrent should be faster than direct downloads from archive.org.

See also database downloads.

2. Instructions (short version: READ_ME.txt)

  1. To use this archive, first download "bahai-library-offline.zip," then unzip it by double-clicking on it. This folder, plus the PDFs, contains everything you need to browse the Library offline.
  2. Look for the file index.html and open it with your browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox).
  3. Also download "pdf.zip," put it in your new folder "bahai-library-offline", and unzip it.
  4. These other folders you can download and add if you'll use them:
      audio.zip
      bahailib.zip
      inba.zip
      newspaper_clippings_archive.zip
      sohrab_diary.zip
      video.zip
  5. You can rename the "bahai-library-offline" folder and move it anywhere on your computer, or copy it to a USB stick.

    The links are relative, meaning as long as you don't move things around within the folder, the local links will all work offline.

    Ignore the files "DS_Store," it's an invisible file-type on my computer and I couldn't delete them all.

3. About

  1. Torrent is faster than direct download. If you don't already have a BitTorrent client I recommend uTorrent, Folx, Transmission, or BitTorrent Web — all work on Windows and Mac.
  2. All documents are either public domain; posted with permission of author, editor, or publisher; or can be classified "fair use." If you see content that may infringe on a copyright, email us.
  3. Most of the site is also at archive.org under archive.org.../bahai-library.com, and a recent save was made in April 2024 as archive.org.../bahai-library.org.
  4. If you don't already have a BitTorrent client I recommend Transmission, uTorrent, or BitTorrent Web — all work on Windows and Mac — or Folx for Mac.

4. Some possible uses

  1. Anyone with "valuable" or unique content they don't want lost (e.g. historical photos, scans of manuscripts, autobiographies) can send it to me for inclusion in the torrent.

  2. In the late 1990s, people made CD-ROM copies of the bahai-library.com filesystem to share with friends in countries with limited internet access. This stopped being possible when the collection became too large for any CD or DVD, and when the content was migrated to a database. Now, the database or parts of the entire collection (e.g., just the PDFs or just the audio) can be shared on a flash drive or USB stick or converted into a spreadsheet.

  3. The data will no longer be tied to a single owner on a single server, and hence can be preserved. This is important because websites can simply disappear overnight: some can fail accidentally, like from a failed hard drive, or they can disappear due to circumstances beyond the owner's control.

5. Some notes on Contents
see complete file list at archive.org/download/bahai-library-offline-files
download from archive.org/details/bahai-library-offline-files

7 GB - bahai-library-offline.zip
This folder unzips to all the 8,000+ URLs in the library and includes all the files you'll need to browse the Library offline, other than PDFs, which due to the folder size is a separate download.
19 GB - /pdf
All PDFs. Folder includes:
/pdf/bw - Bahá'í World (see more at https://bahai.works/Bahá'í_World)
/pdf/irfancolloquia - Lights of Irfan
/pdf/journal-de-constantinople - Journal de Constantinople
/pdf/solas - Solas journal
/pdf/sw - Star of the West (see more at bahai.works/Star_of_the_West)
16 GB - /audio
audio files
13 GB - /bahailib
archive of bahailib.com
3.5 GB - /video
video files
2.5 GB - /inba
archive of Iranian National Bahá'í Archives
2 GB - /images
image files incl. site theme
2 GB - /newspaper_clippings_archive
archive of 50,000 Newspaper Clippings from newspapers.com
1 GB - /presentations
PowerPoint and Keynote documents
1 GB - /docs
Microsoft Word and Word Perfect files
500 MB - /wttp
Windows to the Past audio and transcripts
500 MB - /bjuk
Bahá'í Journal U.K.
74 MB - /newspapers
Most newspaper articles have not been imported into the MySQL database, but remain as HTML files
40 MB - /bafa
archive of Bahá'í Association for the Arts
6 MB - /htu
Healing through Unity newsletter
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