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Books, in the language you are learning.

Hold a word, see the meaning, keep reading.

26,443 public-domain books in 12 languages.

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26,443 public-domain books, in 12 languages.

Last counted: .

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 1865.

One of 12,320 books in English.

One line, and one word you don’t know.

Hold the word. Slide up: the meaning.

The look-up card: meaning and definition.

Real recording of the app.

Slide down right: the whole section, translated.

Real recording of the app.

Slide down left: hear the section read aloud.

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From 26,443 public-domain books in 12 languages, to the one word you don’t know.

Hold a word and the ring opens around it.

The ring open on the word poky, with look up lit
Hold a word and the ring opens around it.

Slide up: the meaning.

The look-up card for the word poky
Slide up: the meaning.

Slide down right: the section, translated.

The section translated in the floating window
Slide down right: the section, translated.
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Placeholder: no recording of this yet.

Slide down left: hear it read aloud.

What you get

Books per language

LanguageBooksEasy
English12,320109
French4,14062
Finnish3,1860
German2,00148
Italian1,13656
Dutch1,01249
Spanish72045
Portuguese68144
Hungarian6431
Swedish2402
Greek23218
Latin1320

Easy means level 1 or 2 of 5. Most books are level 4 or 5: Biblion suits readers from about intermediate level up. Last counted: .

What does public domain mean?

Copyright on a book runs out some time after its author dies: in the EU, 70 years after. From then on anyone may read, copy and share it for free. Biblion shows only books by authors who died in 1945 or earlier, so they are in the public domain across the EU.

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