Simplifying publishing

 Perhaps this is what Google eventually will offer -- this is from the Rosicrucian text Fama Fraternitatis (1616) as quated in Everett F. Bleiler, Johann Valentin Andreae, Fantasist and Utopist:

Would it not be a precious thing if you were able to find in one book everything
that has appeared in every book that has ever existed, that does exist, or will
exist, everything that has been found out and may be found out, to read,
understand, and have it as your very own?

Well, yes it certainly would, I...