Book Finder
Search the catalog by category, length, or subject. This tool helps you identify books that fit your interests and available time.
Do more with this book catalog
This library brings together 95 public-domain works across four categories, from adventure and fantasy to historical fiction and science fiction utopias. Each title is accompanied by an interactive page designed to help you explore the text, understand its context, and plan your reading. Whether you are a casual browser or a careful student, these tools will make the catalog easier to navigate and more rewarding to use.
You can search for books that match your interests, compare works side by side, or get a realistic estimate of the time needed to read a particular title. The tools rely on basic facts about each book—such as category, length, and subject—so you can make informed choices without guesswork. Start with the finder to narrow down the collection, then use the comparison tool to weigh your options, and finish with the reading planner to schedule your next read.
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books with reading-time data
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Ways the catalog data becomes useful
Book Comparison
Place two or more titles side by side to see how they differ in length, complexity, and subject focus. Useful for deciding between similar works.
Reading Time
Estimate how long it will take to finish a book based on word count and your reading speed. Plan your reading sessions with realistic goals.
Using the EHOCE Catalog Tools Together
The EHOCE Public Domain Literature Library holds 95 works, with poetry appearing in nearly a third of them. The catalog's four tools—Book Finder, Compare Books, and Reading Tracker—are designed to support different parts of the reading process: choosing, comparing, and planning. Each works well on its own, but using them in sequence can turn a vague interest into a satisfying read.
Consider a title like "Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes — Text and Context" (id 298). It sits in Historical Psychological Social Fiction, one of four categories, and its 14,788 words place it among the 68 short books. A quick Finder search could surface it, but the Compare tool adds context: alongside other short works, its 17.6-word average sentence length becomes a useful signal of prose style, not a verdict on quality.
Start with the Finder to Narrow the Field
The Book Finder is the natural entry point because it lets you filter by category, length, reading time, chapter rhythm, sentence flow, and subjects. With 95 books, the catalog is small enough that browsing is possible, but the Finder makes it deliberate. For instance, if you know you want a children's poetry collection, filtering by Fantasy Juvenile Worlds and the subject "Children's poetry" narrows the list to a handful of titles.
The Finder also respects ambiguity. No-preference choices don't penalize any book, so you can leave sentence flow or chapter rhythm blank if you're not sure what you want. That flexibility matters in a catalog where the median book takes 78 minutes to read, but the range spans from quick 15-minute pieces to multi-hour tomes.
Use Compare to See Trade-offs Clearly
Once you have two or three candidates, Compare Books places them side by side. The tool shows word count, estimated reading time, text sections, sentence flow, chapter rhythm, and subjects. These are descriptive metrics, not quality judgments. A book with a high average sentence length isn't better or worse—it's simply more likely to require sustained attention.
For example, comparing "Remedia Amoris" (id 298) with a longer work like "The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil — A Reader’s Guide" (id 290) reveals a stark difference in commitment: 65 minutes versus 673 minutes. That's a practical distinction if you're planning an evening's reading versus a week-long project.
The Compare tool also highlights structural differences. A book with many text sections might be easier to pause between, while one with few sections could encourage longer sittings. This information helps you align a book with your available time and reading habits.
Finish with the Tracker to Plan Your Pace
After choosing a book, the Reading Tracker turns estimates into a concrete plan. It records progress in pages, not minutes or sections, so you set a daily page goal and see how many days remain. For a 65-minute book like "Remedia Amoris," the default 20-page goal might mean finishing in a day or two, depending on the total page count.
The tracker's page count can be adjusted to match your own edition, and the estimated remaining time updates proportionally. This keeps your plan realistic, For readers who are reading on a screen or a printed copy. Together, the three tools form a workflow: find, compare, plan—each step building on the last.