LDS Archive Launch

This is a project that I started a long time ago and was originally going to be an iOS app. I haven’t done much with it for awhile actually, but it’s something I’m still interested in and thought I should release it to the world.

I started building LDS Archive because I was reading a lot of General Conference talks, but on the lds.org website they only have talks going back to 1971. My interest in talks pre-1971 started because I would read all the talks from one of the General Authorities, like Gordon B. Hinckley, starting with the present day and going back each conference. I then of course ran into a roadblock because there were more conference talks, but they weren’t redailty availibly online.

Until now, the only way to get access to these older General Conference talk was to read the difficult to read pdf formats on the Internet Archive. So, out of my desire for more I decided that I would embark on converting all of the pdf’s into easy to read markdown. I’ve already converted most of the talks from October 1970 and will slowly keep at it one talk at time.

I also decided to open source the project so that anyone interested in helping can do so.