Just so you know, my Cloudflare account says that this site has had 164k of unique visitors over the past 30 days (as of 2/11/2025). I am still uploading more and more modules. At this point, I am not making modules anymore. I want to get the bulk uploaded to the site, and then I will start making more modules as God permits. I really like archive.org, and it is a lot of work to individually scan and OCR each page of works that are hundreds of pages long, then check spelling/OCR errors, reformat, make into a module. But I love getting these old books into theWord and MySword formats.
I understand that there are some hiccups in things still. For one, I need to go through the download pages and find a few duplicates. I have seen some and removed them. Another thing that I think is needed is to remove the downloads at the bottom of the pages, which are ordered by date. I do not think that is the way to do this.
So I am making Archive pages, and on them, I am making everything I upload in a month to the website on a single page. If you are looking for something specific, then you can navigate the stacks and see if it is there. Otherwise, if you are downloading most or all of what I have, then I think you will find it easier to go to the Archive page for the month you haven’t downloaded things, and see what you are missing and download individually there.
As far as what I am planning in the future, I am going through my archive BluRay DVDs of 100Gbs and 25Gbs, (40+) of them, and I will at some future point compare every twm file there to what is in my hard disk archive folder with theWord files. That folder now has 73.3GBs. There is a lot of duplication still, but not as much as you would think. I have to go through there every time I move files from my hard drive folders scattered around to that folder, and when I add files from the DVDs to my hard disk.
I still haven’t really done much recently as far as converting e-Sword modules to theWord modules. So, I have too many theWord modules to worry about that at this point. In that theWord folder on my hard drive, I have 30,665 *.twm files to work with. Enough to keep me busy through the summer and then some. On my DVD cataloging program (remember there is a lot of duplication), I am showing 184,158 *.twm files. So I would guess that I could possibly have 30k to 40k unique files in all of that. Maybe as low as 15k to 20k. I do not know. I have made a lot of security copies over the years.
On another note, I am getting older, and I am sharing my libraries with the world. 1) I am finding it harder to spend time on this. 2) My finances are failing with inflation and more medical expenses in my wife’s and my life. I am diabetic, so I will eventually go into kidney failure if I do not die of something else first. Again, your prayers would be greatly appreciated. My email is [email protected] so send me a note if you are praying for me.
We are independent Fundamental Baptist missionaries, and we have no work fund, and our personal support level has been at 50% for 20 years now. Raising new support has not gone so well for us. With our age, I am not seeing that as viable. I would rather work for the Lord than be a professional money fund-raiser.
So I am finding paying for everything myself more and more difficult. I get donations about 1 every 6 months between all my websites (and sometimes years without anything) of about $20 to $40 each donation. With Gigabytes of downloads every month (some months 150+ Gigabytes of traffic and downloads) I have no cooperation from those I serve in the name of our Lord. That is sad, but that is how life is, it seems. Everybody wants everything free. But my labors are really for the Lord, not for profit. I pay the several thousand dollars hosting fees and domain fees for my 32 websites (about 2500 dollars per year) out of our personal income.
If I am understanding all of this correctly, in heaven, even a cup of water given in the name of Jesus is rewarded. On the one hand, I will be rewarded for my efforts in giving away a whole library of works. On the other hand, for every truly saved author in this library (nobody knows for sure who is saved and who is not) their ministries will be echoed in our day by these works getting out. God will bless them as their works are read and studied, and their blessing will spill over to me again.
If I can offer the people of God these blessings, it is for my eternal benefit. My MySword website, myswordmodules.com, is having between 20k to 30k visitors EACH DAY for the last month. So at 20k, that is 600k visitors downloading things from there.
In some small way, I believe that God will reward me some small reward for extending their ministries into our generation. Likewise, this blessing will be shared with those who donate for the upkeep of this ministry.
If you would like to donate, you can do so, for any amount, at
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davidcoxmex.
As a suggestion, I would suggest a donation of $5 per year, every year you get a blessing from my work. It is not much, and even if you were to donate the equivalent of what you would spend going to lunch or dinner in a restaurant, it would be great. But if I have 164k unique visitors to just twmodules.com over the past 30 days and probably more or less every month the same, and some 1 of every 100 people who read this page and donate even 1.5 dollars, that would be 164,000/100 = 1640 x $1.5 = $2460 which would take care of my expenses to keep things up. I do not know what you can buy in the United States for a buck fifty, maybe a hot dog at Costco, but your donation would cause you blessings and rewards in heaven. Praying for me would be even better though.
The rest of my websites, besides this one, are all ministry websites. I have sites for theWord, mySword, eSword, PDFs, EPub, MOBI, RTFs, etc., and other ministry websites (with no downloads), theWord tutorial website, a theology website, my Spanish sermons’ website, my tracts in English and Spanish, etc. Most of the above are usually paralleled in English and Spanish. But some of those websites have lesser traffic, and occupy less space on the hosting account.
But my entire Internet ministry would be paid for if 1 of every 100 would donate just $1.50 PER YEAR. So donate even a dollar, and help me out here. I am not making a profit, because I have paid for everything for 25+ years or more out of my living expenses.
That is besides the actual work I put into finding these works on the Internet, making these modules, converting from one format to another, and being a web designer, which I have never formally studied or taken any class about anything having to do with computers (I graduated from college in 1979 when Tandy Radio Shack was the “in vogue” computer of the day with a whopping extremely large floppy disk with 16 KILOBYTES storage capacity).
I had a Sinclair computer, which I bought from some science magazine of the day. To use it, it only had volatile memory (6k), so you had to enter by hand some 4 pages of BASIC, and then you could “do things” with it, and when you cut it off, everything was lost. I entered a crude Word Processing program, but with no permanent storage to save anything nor anyway to print anything, so it wasn’t very useful to me at the time, except to introduce me to computers. Everything I know I learned from buying computer books and studying them, and mostly trial and error. I even learned how to make programs in the old FoxPro dbase manager at one point.
As far as being a web designer, I have never formally studied any of that either. But it is not so difficult if you are patient, but when hackers constantly insert virus and try DoS attacks to bring down a website, it is extremely difficult to stop everything else, take a week to study virus and hacking and how to defend your site, and fix the problems.
twmodules.com and eswordlibrary.com have been constantly hacked every year (unlike the majority of my other websites). I see these attacks, and some get in and most do not. But in 2024 alone, I had to rebuild twmodules.com three times from scratch. I also had to move the site hosting from one hosting company (taken over by Chinese) to another company. That seems to have fixed a lot of problems. I have had our church website stolen by some Chinese person, and they deleted my content and put up an ecommerce site in Chinese. I deleted it and recopied my content. But I invest my life in my missionary ministry and my Internet ministry, which is an extension of my missionary ministry.
On my site, coxtracts.com, I have the following download statistics, (the download counter was begun in October 2023)
- bs51 (bs stands for Bible Student) Study plan for studying the Bible 140,342
- bs53 Christian Hope 137,767
- bs44 Blessing of God’s presence 137,443
- bs09 Clarity of Scriptures 136,979
- bs33 Equity versus Responsibility 136,740
- cat24 (cat stands for Catholicism) Voodoo 136.560
- bs29 Golden Rule 135,265
- fam26 Advice for Youth 122,794 (fam is family category)
- ch17 Why I attend Church 96,379 (ch is church category)
- etc.
I have used Google Translate to translate my tracts from Spanish to English, because it is usually faster (I was born in Charleston, South Carolina and am a native English speaker). Then I proofread what I translate about 2-3 times in English. My wife proofreads my Spanish tracts. She is Mexican. But I learned how to translate things into other languages that I do not know.
So I adventured into translating a salvation tract into Chinese. I had to translate a sentence, back translate it into English, and change the English so that the meaning came through. It took me two days to do. I just wanted to see if I could do it. That Chinese salvation tract, Salv01CNT, has been viewed 12,450 times. A second tract I translated into Chinese on what the Bible says about homosexuals, Homosexuals PC09, has been viewed 7,921 times.
I have tracts in various languages other than English on coxtracts.com, and other than Spanish on folletosytratados.com. I have tracts available (that I translated like that) in Haitian Creole (they passed through Mexico to the US, #2), French (#43), Italian (#24), Portuguese (#14) on Folletosytratados.com. On coxtracts.com, I have my tracts in Russian, Afrikaan (South Africa), Romanian, Uzbek, Hindi, and Finnish. I dabble in all kinds of stuff. Attempt great things for the Lord, and your will accomplish a lot, and God will bless you for it.
But my point is that this website is only a small part of my overall ministry on the Internet, and that is not even referencing being an evangelist, a pastor, and church planter here in Mexico since 1984. If you cannot donate a few dollars to help me in this ministry, then at least say a prayer for me and my ministry every once in a while. Prayer is better than money, actually. If you do not have money to donate, do not worry. Everything I do is always free. I live by faith, and God moves His people’s hearts to help us with regular donations to get by. I am a testimony to that fact all these years. We will continue to live by faith until God calls us home.
When I go broke or die, my sites will come down within months. So you should take advantage of what I have while I can still keep it up.
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