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Filter by category, subject, length, and reading time to discover texts that match your current mood and available hours.
Do more with this book catalog
This catalog holds 91 public-domain texts across four categories, from adventure tales to utopian fiction. Each entry includes practical reading metrics, such as word count, estimated reading time, and sentence complexity, so you can choose a book that fits your schedule and taste.
The tools here let you filter by subject, compare works side by side, and understand how long a book will take to read before you start. Whether you are browsing for a quick essay or a lengthy biography, these pages are designed to help you find your next read with confidence.
91
books in this catalog
4
catalog categories
91
books with reading-time data
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Ways the catalog data becomes useful
Compare Works
Place two titles side by side to see how they differ in scope, sentence structure, and estimated reading commitment.
Estimate Reading Time
See how many minutes each book may take, based on word count and average reading speed, and plan your reading sessions accordingly.
Three Tools, One Reading Path
Every book in this library comes with more than a title page. The catalog records word counts, estimated reading times, the number of chapters, average sentence length, and subject headings, and the three tools on this page put those facts to work. Book Finder narrows the catalog, Compare Books sets two or three titles side by side, and the Reading Tracker turns a chosen book into a daily page goal. Used together, they move you from a vague interest to a finished reading project.
The tools do not rate literary quality. They describe measurable features, and those features can matter more than you might expect. A book with a high average sentence length may demand a different kind of attention than one with short, brisk sentences, even if both fall into the same category. The Reading Tracker, for instance, can show that a 734-minute estimate for Remarks — Story, Setting & Ideas becomes manageable when you set a daily page goal and let the tool calculate a finish date.
Start with Finder, Then Compare
Book Finder is the natural entry point because it lets you combine category, length, estimated reading time, chapter rhythm, sentence flow, and subject preferences. You might begin with a category like Adventure Picaresque Fiction and then select a medium word count to avoid the longest works. The tool returns a list that fits those constraints, but the list can still contain dozens of titles. That is where Compare Books becomes useful.
Compare Books takes two or three of the Finder's results and places their numbers side by side. You can see, for example, that The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2 — Edition Insights has an estimated reading time of 657 minutes and 22 text sections, while Letters, sentences and maxims — Edition Insights is shorter at 354 minutes and 12 sections. The comparison does not tell you which is better; it tells you which fits your available time and your preference for frequent stopping points.
The two tools work best in a loop. Use Finder to generate a shortlist, compare the shortlisted titles, and then return to Finder with a new criterion if the comparison raises a question. You might discover that you prefer a low chapter count, or that a particular subject heading interests you more than you expected. The catalog's 91 books are varied enough that a second pass often reveals something the first one missed.
Tracker Turns Choice into Progress
Once a book is selected, the Reading Tracker gives it a concrete shape. It records your current page, total pages, and a daily page goal. When a fixed catalog page count is unavailable, the initial estimate is calculated by dividing the word count by 250 words per page. You can replace that estimate with the page total from your own reading app or edition, which is useful when the physical book has different pagination.
The estimated remaining time is proportional to the book's estimated reading minutes, scaled by the fraction of pages left. If you have read half of a book that was estimated at 600 minutes, the tracker will show about 300 minutes remaining. The estimated finish days are simply the remaining pages divided by your daily goal, rounded up. With a default goal of 20 pages per day, a 400-page book would take about 20 days.
This planning works best when you set a realistic goal. The default of 20 pages is a starting point, but you can adjust it to match your schedule. The tracker stores your progress in the browser's local storage, so no account is needed and your history stays on your device. That privacy makes it easy to experiment with different goals without any commitment.