Find Your Next Read
Use the Finder to filter books by category, length, or subject. It helps you narrow down the catalog to titles that fit your current reading mood.
Do more with this book catalog
This library holds 96 public-domain works, arranged into four categories: Fantasy Juvenile Worlds, Historical Psychological Social Fiction, Exploration Survival Adventure Tales, and Machines Inventions Early Science Fiction. Each book is accompanied by interpretive tools that help you locate, compare, and estimate reading time for titles that match your interests.
The tools are designed to be practical. The Finder matches books to your preferred subjects and lengths. The Compare tool lets you view two titles side by side to see how they differ in structure and theme. The Reading tool provides honest estimates of reading time based on word counts and typical reading speeds.
96
books in this catalog
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catalog categories
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books with reading-time data
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Ways the catalog data becomes useful
Compare Books
The Compare tool places two books next to each other, showing word count, reading time, and subject overlap. It is useful when you are deciding between similar titles.
Plan Your Reading
The Reading tool estimates how long a book will take to finish, based on its length. It also shows how the book fits into broader reading time categories like quick or marathon.
Choosing, Comparing, and Tracking Your Reading
The LIWOI Public Domain Literature Library holds ninety-six books that span juvenile fantasy, historical social fiction, early science fiction, and adventure tales. With that many titles, the hard part is often deciding where to begin. The Book Finder, Compare Books, and Reading Tracker work best as a set: the Finder narrows the field, Compare settles a close call, and the Tracker keeps a chosen book manageable from first page to last.
Each tool answers a different question. The Finder asks what you are in the mood for. Compare asks how two or three candidates differ in practical ways. The Tracker asks how you will pace yourself once you start. None of them rate literary quality. They are reference instruments, like a library catalog, meant to put the right book in your hands and help you finish it.
When to Reach for the Finder
The Finder is the natural starting point because it lets you combine several signals at once. You can filter by category, word-count length, estimated reading time, chapter rhythm, sentence flow, and subject. A book like "Seven daughters — Key Ideas to Explore" (id 304) sits in Fantasy Juvenile Worlds with about 75,000 words and a sentence flow of 12.4 words per sentence. If you know you want a longer read with accessible prose, the Finder can surface it alongside other titles that match those criteria.
The Finder also respects indecision. No-preference choices do not penalize books, so you can leave a filter untouched if you do not care about that dimension. That is useful when your only firm requirement is a subject, such as "Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction," which appears on eighteen titles in this catalog. The tool narrows without forcing you to commit to a category you are unsure about.
When you have a shortlist, the Finder has done its job. Move to Compare to see how the remaining candidates actually stack up against each other.
From Shortlist to Reading Plan
Compare accepts two or three books and lays out their measurable differences side by side. You might be torn between a 38,000-word book and a 75,000-word one; the reading time column makes the gap concrete. It also shows text sections, sentence flow, and chapter rhythm, which hint at how often you will encounter a natural stopping point. These are descriptive metrics relative to this catalog, not judgments of quality.
Once a book is chosen, the Reading Tracker turns the decision into a plan. It records progress in pages, with a current page, total pages, and a daily page goal. If the catalog does not list a fixed page count, it estimates one by dividing the word count by 250 words per page. You can replace that estimate with the total from your own reading app or edition.
The Tracker calculates estimated remaining time and finish days from your daily goal. Progress is stored in your browser, so no account is needed. The default goal is 20 pages a day, but you can adjust it to fit your schedule. Used together, the three tools take you from a vague interest to a finished book with a clear sense of how you got there.