Book Finder
Narrow down the catalog by category, subject, length, or estimated reading time. See books that match your preferences and discover new reads from the library's public-domain collection.
Do more with this book catalog
The EEANN Public Domain Literature Library offers a growing collection of public-domain works, currently featuring 90 books across four thematic categories. These tools help you explore the catalog in ways that suit your interests and reading habits.
Whether you are looking for a specific type of story, comparing works side by side, or planning your next reading session, the library provides practical aids. Each tool draws on catalog data to give you clear, useful guidance.
90
books in this catalog
4
catalog categories
90
books with reading-time data
Made for this collection
Ways the catalog data becomes useful
Compare Books
Place two books side by side and examine their word counts, sentence complexity, and subject matter. This objective comparison helps you understand how different works are constructed.
Reading Companion
Get honest estimates of reading time and effort based on word count and sentence length. Plan your reading schedule with realistic expectations for each book.
Choosing a Book, Comparing Editions, and Tracking Progress
The EEANN Public Domain Literature Library holds ninety works spread across four categories, from Historical Social Novels to Magic Oz Juvenile Fantasy. With that range, the first question is usually not which book is best but which one fits the reading time you actually have. The Book Finder, Compare Books, and Reading Tracker work together to answer that question without pretending to measure literary quality.
Start with the Finder
The Finder narrows the catalog by the signals that matter most before you commit: category, length, estimated reading time, chapter rhythm, sentence flow, and subjects. For instance, if you know you want a historical work but have only a weekend, you can filter by category and then by a shorter reading time. The Finder also lets you leave any criterion as no preference, so nothing is penalized for being outside your usual habits.
A title like A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century — Key Ideas to Explore sits in the Technology Airships Imagined Futures category despite its historical subject, so relying on category alone can mislead. The Finder’s other criteria, especially word count and reading time, add the practical detail that category cannot supply.
Compare Before You Commit
Once two or three books seem plausible, Compare Books lays them side by side. Word count, estimated reading time, text sections, sentence flow, chapter rhythm, and subjects are all visible at once. This is useful when a shorter estimate still feels long because the book is divided into very few sections, or when a moderate word count hides a dense sentence flow.
The comparison is descriptive, not evaluative. A book with longer sentences is not better or worse; it simply asks for a different kind of attention. Seeing those metrics together helps you match a book to your current reading mode, whether that is a quick evening read or a week-long immersion.
Track with Realistic Goals
After you choose, the Reading Tracker turns the book’s total pages into a daily plan. Progress is recorded in pages, not sections or minutes, so the goal stays simple. If the catalog does not list a fixed page count, the tracker estimates pages by dividing the word count by 250 words per page, and you can replace that estimate with the page count from your own edition.
The tracker calculates remaining time and finish date from your daily page goal, and it stores your history in the browser without needing an account. The default goal is 20 pages per day, but you can adjust it. A 500-page book at that pace takes 25 days; at 40 pages a day, it takes about 13. The tools give you the numbers, but the pace is yours to set.