About the name

Lexarii (lex-AR-ee-ee) is a coined Latin word meaning “the keepers of words.”

In Latin, the ending -arius names a person devoted to a craft: a librarius worked with books, an armarius kept the cupboard where a monastery’s books were shelved. Its plural, -arii, names an order of them, people who share the work. Lex- is the one in lexicon, from the Greek léxis, a word. Put together: the keepers of words.

Picture them as archivists who catalogue every volume, preserve every note, and make sure nothing worth reading is ever lost. Lexarii brings that devotion to your own shelves.

What the name promises

A name is a promise, and this one is specific.

• Every volume catalogued. Upload a book and Lexarii reads its own metadata, finds its cover, and files it with its author, its series and its subjects, drawn from the book itself rather than typed in by you.
• Every note preserved. Highlights and notes are anchored to the exact passage, not to a percentage of the file, so they stay where you put them when the font size or the screen changes.
• Nothing worth reading lost. Your files are never altered. What Lexarii derives from them, the text, the index and the covers, is kept beside them, never written into them. And when you ask a question, the answer points back to the page it came from.

A note on Latin

Purists will notice that Latin’s own lex means law, not word. We know. The keepers of words borrowed their lex- from the Greek, as English did for lexicon, and we are content to let a library’s name be a little bit of both: words, kept carefully, by rule.

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