openshelf: Read Classic Books
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openShelf is a quiet, beautiful place to read classic books that have lasted
Inside you will find more than seventy five thousand timeless classics, every one of them free and complete. Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Bronte sisters, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, and thousands more are waiting, gathered from the world's public domain so they can stay free forever. Search by title, author, or subject and begin reading in a moment.
What makes openShelf unlike any other reading app is a feeling we call World Thoughts. As you read, you can open any single page and see what other readers felt on that exact page, in their own words, left quietly and anonymously. When a line moves you, you can leave your own thought there too, for the next stranger who arrives on the same page, perhaps years from now. Reading has always been a solitary act. openShelf gently turns it into something shared, so that somewhere, someone is always feeling the same page as you.
The reading itself is calm and uncluttered. Warm paper tones, classic typography, and a clean page let the words breathe. Swipe to turn the page, scroll within a page so no line ever slips past you, and tap once for a simple menu. Long press any line to highlight it in a color you choose, or to attach a private note that only you will ever see. Everything you mark is saved to your Library, organized by book and by page, so your reading life stays with you.
The home screen is arranged the way a thoughtful friend might hand you a book. Beyond the usual genres, shelves are gathered by feeling, for when life feels heavy, for when you want to escape completely, for the books that quietly changed the world. Choose a mood and a book will be there for it.
openShelf is free to use and asks almost nothing of you. No account, no sign up, no tracking of who you are. A small and respectful ad helps keep the servers running so the books can stay free, and a single optional upgrade removes it for anyone who would rather read without it.
This is reading made a little less lonely. A library that remembers what people felt in its pages, and gives those feelings back to you, one page at a time.
Inside you will find more than seventy five thousand timeless classics, every one of them free and complete. Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Bronte sisters, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, and thousands more are waiting, gathered from the world's public domain so they can stay free forever. Search by title, author, or subject and begin reading in a moment.
What makes openShelf unlike any other reading app is a feeling we call World Thoughts. As you read, you can open any single page and see what other readers felt on that exact page, in their own words, left quietly and anonymously. When a line moves you, you can leave your own thought there too, for the next stranger who arrives on the same page, perhaps years from now. Reading has always been a solitary act. openShelf gently turns it into something shared, so that somewhere, someone is always feeling the same page as you.
The reading itself is calm and uncluttered. Warm paper tones, classic typography, and a clean page let the words breathe. Swipe to turn the page, scroll within a page so no line ever slips past you, and tap once for a simple menu. Long press any line to highlight it in a color you choose, or to attach a private note that only you will ever see. Everything you mark is saved to your Library, organized by book and by page, so your reading life stays with you.
The home screen is arranged the way a thoughtful friend might hand you a book. Beyond the usual genres, shelves are gathered by feeling, for when life feels heavy, for when you want to escape completely, for the books that quietly changed the world. Choose a mood and a book will be there for it.
openShelf is free to use and asks almost nothing of you. No account, no sign up, no tracking of who you are. A small and respectful ad helps keep the servers running so the books can stay free, and a single optional upgrade removes it for anyone who would rather read without it.
This is reading made a little less lonely. A library that remembers what people felt in its pages, and gives those feelings back to you, one page at a time.
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What’s new
A calmer new home, a cleaner reader, and a warmer first read plus reliability fixes so every classic opens right up. Happy reading
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+919370517710
About the developer
ATHARV SAMIR DESHMUKH
atharvdeshmuk55@gmail.com
NEVARI ROAD VITA
VITA, Maharashtra 415311
India
