Future Plans for PDFs of Past Books, a generation has still not read Shadowbeat Options

[Kagetenshi]

Once upon a time, there was an effort underway to render old Shadowrun books, including sourcebooks, adventures, and older core rules, into beautiful, searchable PDFs. These PDFs would then be exchanged for the dollars of adoring fans (and possibly other currencies, I don't know what distribution is like).

Unfortunately, our tale does not end happily. If I remember correctly, after a period of some months without a new (old) release, it was revealed that the person who had previously been in charge of one of the key steps of the process had suffered a medical emergency (stroke?). Understandably, given the small sizes of the organizations in question, the process ground to a halt.

I recently realized that the necessary ritual ablutions required before my filthy mortal hands could dare touch the copy of Shadowbeat on my shelf were taking up altogether too much of my day. There was also the recent hand sprain caused by attempting to hold my place on no less than eight separate pages of Rigger 3 Revised. These events have driven me to ask, if there's anyone reading who can provide official guidance or even unofficial speculation, does this effort have a future? What is its current status? Officially cancelled? Officially ongoing but with every related issue on the rearmost burner (or maybe sitting on the counter waiting to get onto the rearmost burner)? No one really knows?

Guidance on the matter more recent than the 2007 threads I could find on the matter greatly appreciated.

~J