A founding message · September 11, 2026

Guten

Knowledge rendered into useful form.

Books have long carried thought across distance and time. Digital systems let a work do something more: remain readable as a book while becoming navigable, connected, revisable, and alive to the communities forming around it.

Guten is being developed as a home for books, living publications, and the forms between them. This interim edition begins with two related works.

The Path of Many ArrowsA web reading edition presenting its front matter, introduction, and prologue.The Living StackA field guide for beginning to build what the first book calls for.