Personal Highlights
Members can save highlighted words, sentences, and passages with custom colors and notes.
Ancient libraries, modern research tools
About Clovis Star
Clovis Star is a research library built for readers who want to study ancient, apocryphal, gnostic, hermetic, Egyptian, Sumerian, and early Christian writings in one focused place.
The Work Behind the Library
Ryan "Dickie" Thompson created Clovis Star after years of travel, research, and collecting. Along the way, he has visited libraries, archives, historic sites, and cultural centers around the world, while also searching through digital collections, public-domain archives, museum records, and rare text repositories.
The goal has been to gather writings that are often scattered, difficult to find, poorly formatted, or treated as forbidden, hidden, rejected, or forgotten by mainstream religious and historical traditions. Clovis Star brings those materials into a cleaner reading environment so they can be compared, studied, preserved, and revisited.
Ryan also documents parts of his travels and research journey through Where's the Map, a companion project that follows the places, routes, and discoveries connected to the larger Clovis Star work.
Why This Application Exists
This site is more than a reading list. It was built as a study application for deeper research across connected traditions and source texts. Readers can move from one book to another, compare passages side by side, and build a personal research trail as they study.
Personal Concordance
Saved highlights can become a private reference index organized by book, topic, folder, and tag.
Book Comparison
The compare tool allows two texts to be opened side by side for close reading and cross-reference.
A Living Collection
Clovis Star continues to grow. Texts are cleaned, corrected, sourced, and expanded over time. When better public sources, scans, translations, or manuscript references are found, the library can be improved and reorganized for clearer study.
The purpose is simple: preserve access to important ancient writings and give serious readers the tools to study them with more context, more control, and more continuity.