An AI generated and soulless framework
But it lacks substance. Everything suggested work feels like chatting with an LLM. Nothing is thought out, and clearly hasn’t been battle tested. It doesn’t work the way it feels at first glance. Navigating the see of classics is confusing. It’s easy to lose track of your things in a messy and unorganized UI.
You’re better off asking fable to make you your own app for reading great literature and curate your own experience locally. That’s what I’m doing at least.
I love it!
Beautiful app, excellent customer service
Premium sub includes thousands of books for logging. I messaged the team in-app and they added three books for me the same day. Amazing!
Response from developer
The Tolstoy calendar is a personal favourite too, a little reminder that even the giants kept to a schedule! Keep the requests coming, welcome to the canon.
Charging for publicly available classics is madness.
Response from developer
Hi Brenton, you're completely right and we'd never argue otherwise: nearly every text we hold is in the public domain, and Project Gutenberg is one of the great gifts of the internet! Penguin Classics never sold anyone a copyright either, what a good edition sells is the choosing, the typesetting, the ease... that's the tradition we're working in just built for a phone. The daily heart of the app is free and stays free: a work each morning with its introduction and extract, it's author profile, your reading list, your log, your own ranked canon. Premium is the deeper end for those that want it; a library of nearly 1000 works typeset properly for the screen, downloadable for offline, with rain or the sea playing softly behind the page if you like! Bloomy, a literary companion who has read all of it and will argue with you about any of it and can draw beautiful reading plans just for you. and we have no quarrel on libraries, we're devoted. We just wanted a librarian in your pocket, one who slides something surprising across the desk each morning (glad the desk at least looked nice) I'm sorry you felt the need to give 1 star. yours, Hal
Laurie
Response from developer
thank you! An app built on three thousand years of vocabulary and you've caught us without a word for what it is; that might be the finest compliment we've ever had. we'll keep trying to earn the new category.
