The Complete Works of Li Ao 5.0

"The Complete Works of Li Ao 5.0" is the latest collection of Mr. Li Ao's works, containing 163 books with a total of 3,140,842 pages, adding about 2 million words compar...

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Many people face difficulties when looking for Li Ao‘s works: either the Taiwanese edition of the complete works lacks articles from standalone volumes, or precious materials like letters and appendices are scattered and hard to find. Some people spend ages only getting half a scanned copy, which can’t even be searched or annotated. If you’ve ever encountered such frustrating issues, the “The Complete Works of Li Ao 5.0″ mentioned today might help.

Why is it always hard to find a reliable version of Li Ao’s complete works?

Previously, many people came into contact with “The Complete Works of Li Ao”, which is 97 books in the Taiwanese edition, but Li Ao later had many contents from standalone volumes that were not included. For example, his early letters, unpublished appendices, and some transcribed scripts from his shows were mostly scattered in e-books or forum posts before, and even if you collected all of them, you couldn’t read them uniformly. Some scanned old books even have uncopyable text, so you have to flip through page by page to check a specific point of view, which is very time-consuming.

This version 5.0 is designed to fill these gaps. It is the final proofread version made by teams like whatot and GOLGO11 with a lot of effort. It is more complete and accurate than any previous version, even correcting typos in the Taiwanese edition and adding all the missing contents.

Official website: https://github.com/whatot/liao

What exactly can you get from this version if you want to collect all of Li Ao’s books?

You don’t have to piece things together anymore. This complete works has a solid 163 books, with a total word count of over 31.4 million. The newly added contents alone include appendices not included in the Taiwanese edition of the complete works, as well as Li Ao’s letters that have leaked in recent years—these are all contents that were hard to collect before. The resources are divided into three parts: the first part is the 97 books of the Taiwanese edition of the complete works, the second part is the standalone volumes published separately by Li Ao, and the third part is the transcripts of Li Ao’s speeches and shows, books related to him, and works compiled by himself.

In addition to text books, this version also integrates Li Ao’s video, audio, and image resources. Some scanned documents have been converted into editable TXT files via OCR technology, and finally made into common formats like mobi, azw3, epub, and pdf. No matter if you use a mobile phone, tablet, or e-reader, you can download and read directly without converting formats yourself.

What channels do you need to go through to get the complete version for free?

This version is open-sourced on GitHub, published using an automatic build tool, and available for free to users worldwide. You don’t have to spend a penny, nor look for messy resource sites. The project address is on the official website mentioned earlier—click in to get the complete resources, and you don’t have to worry about downloading files with ads or viruses.

For ordinary readers, you don’t have to worry about incomplete contents or whether the format is compatible with your device. For researchers, this complete version of materials is also enough for a while, saving a lot of time on organizing materials. After all, Li Ao has a large number of works, and it is indeed rare to find a version that fills in so many gaps and is made into a universal format.