The Reading Room

Every released page of the Epstein files, printed and bound into 3,437 numbered volumes. Seventeen thousand pounds of paper. On the road from September to November 2026.

In June 2026 the Institute for Primary Facts put the entire released Epstein archive into a storefront in Washington, DC, with no captions and no interpretation, and opened the door. Fifteen thousand people walked through it there and in New York. They made 1,600 calls to the Department of Justice from inside the room. They left 3,200 handwritten notes.

This fall the archive travels. Five cities where the full Reading Room opens for several days each, and twenty towns in between where a Bookmobile parks and opens its doors.

Why print it

The Justice Department has revised this record once already. They control the server, the redactions, and the pace. They do not control 3,437 bound volumes on a shelf in a truck, and they never will.

What we believe

The survivors deserve the truth. They are the ones it was taken from.

The rest of us deserve something different and less personal: a country where a person who does this to a child is punished, and where being rich enough and connected enough does not change that.

Those are two separate debts, and only one of them is ours.

How we work with survivors

Everything runs through the people this happened to, on their terms. They decide whether they speak, where, and about what. We carry their words rather than describing their experience. We do not explain anyone’s decision not to participate.

Who publishes this

The Institute for Primary Facts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN 41-2928557.

Supporting the work

Everything published here is free and always will be.

A paid subscription supports the work, but is a payment for this publication rather than a charitable donation, and is not tax-deductible.

To make a tax-deductible gift — or to sponsor one of the 3,437 volumes and put your name inside it permanently — go to primary-facts.org/donate.

The record is public. Go look.