Find Your Next Book
Use the Finder to narrow down titles by category, subject, length, and reading time. Whether you prefer short stories or epic sagas, find a book that fits your mood.
Do more with this book catalog
Welcome to the EJICU Public Domain Literature Library, a curated collection of 94 classic texts. Here you can search, compare, and prepare for reading works from four distinct categories, from adventure tales to imagined futures.
Our reader tools are designed to help you find books that match your interests, understand their features at a glance, and estimate your reading time. Explore the catalog with confidence, knowing each title is in the public domain and freely accessible.
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books in this catalog
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catalog categories
94
books with reading-time data
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Ways the catalog data becomes useful
Compare Books Side by Side
Use the Compare tool to view key details like word count, reading time, and text sections across multiple titles. Make an informed choice before you start reading.
Plan Your Reading Session
The Reading tool estimates how long it will take to finish a book based on its word count. Choose a quick read or a marathon session, and plan accordingly.
Three Tools, One Reading Plan
The EJICU Public Domain Literature Library holds 94 books across four categories, and the median title runs about 55,000 words. With that much variety, the practical question is not which book to open first—it is how to match a book to the time and attention you actually have. The Book Finder, Compare Books, and Reading Tracker each answer a different part of that question, and they work best when used in sequence.
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 subject. A quick pass might surface a historical social novel like "Red love — Edition Insights" (id 297), which sits in Historical Psychological Social Fiction with 62,516 words and a 272-minute estimate. That is a solid mid-length choice, but the Finder alone does not tell you how it compares to other candidates.
Because the Finder lets you leave any criterion at no preference, you can start broad and tighten gradually. For instance, you might filter by Fantasy Juvenile Worlds and then add a preference for shorter reading time to see which titles drop out. The tool only filters; it never ranks quality, so the results are a shortlist, not a verdict.
Test Two or Three with Compare
Once the Finder gives you a shortlist, Compare Books puts two or three titles side by side. You can see word count, estimated minutes, text sections, sentence flow, chapter rhythm, and subjects. This is where a choice becomes concrete: a 45,000-word book with 25 text sections may feel like a faster read than a 40,000-word book with 6 sections, even though the word counts are close.
The comparison is descriptive, not evaluative. A book with long sentences is not better or worse than one with short sentences—it simply requires a different kind of attention. Seeing the metrics together helps you decide which trade-off you prefer for your next read.
Plan the Read with the Tracker
After you choose, the Reading Tracker turns the estimate into a daily plan. It works in pages: you set a current page, a total page count, and a daily goal. The initial total is calculated from the word count using 250 words per page, but you can replace it with the page count from your own edition. The tracker then shows estimated finish days and remaining time, all stored locally in your browser.
The three tools are not separate islands. The Finder narrows, Compare confirms, and the Tracker schedules. Used together, they turn a 94-book catalog into a manageable reading list with a realistic plan for finishing each title.