I have spent the last few days preserving lost media.

This is Tales of Deltora. It's a lorebook for the Deltora series of books by Emily Rodda.

The red one is the Second Edition. It added 3 new stories not found in the first. It was only ever printed in Australia.

The first edition can still be found in some markets, but the second one is rare and no longer for sale anywhere, for any price. I managed to buy a copy in 2019 that was the last one available.

Neither ever received an official digital release. The first has a scan on Internet Archive, but the second is completely unarchived. Until now.

I have transcribed by hand and created an epub version of the Second Edition.

Other than the new stories, the Second Edition lacks the artwork of the first edition and has a different Foreword. Using the scan from Internet Archive, I have combined these things to make a definitive version in my epub.

Unfortunately, due to loathsome copyright laws, I cannot share this file publicly despite the fact that it's the only way most people have of reading the three additional stories.

I *have* sent it out into the wild though. Hopefully, if internet magic has done its thing, you will eventually be able to find it wherever you find black market ebooks.

I'd like a better situation than this, but that's the world we live in.