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The best horror was written over a hundred years ago. Before jump scares, before gore — when horror was a feeling, not a genre label.
8 free public domain classics for your e-reader: Dracula, Carmilla, Frankenstein, The King in Yellow, The Turn of the Screw, Jekyll & Hyde, The Great God Pan, and The Monkey's Paw.
All free EPUBs from Standard Ebooks. No sign-ups, no DRM.
📖 Earth Day Read: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." Thoreau's account of two years spent in a cabin by Walden Pond remains one of the most influential meditations on simple living, nature, and self-reliance ever written.
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Amazon now lets you download some Kindle books as DRM-free EPUBs. A step forward -- but once you start reading EPUBs, you notice how much quality varies between editions.
Proper typography, consistent formatting, good metadata. These things matter more than you'd think.
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📖 World Book Day / Shakespeare Day: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
"To be, or not to be" — Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of revenge, madness, and mortality. Written around 1600, Hamlet remains the most performed and studied play in the English language. The play that defined Western literature.
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 26
Born on this day: Marcus Aurelius (121)
Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher. Meditations remains a timeless guide to life.
📅 This Day in Literature — April 23
Born & died on this day: William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Born and died on the same date. Also World Book Day (UNESCO).
📅 This Day in Literature — April 21
Born on this day: Charlotte Brontë (1816)
Also the birthday of Mark Twain's first voyage on the Mississippi.
📖 "Curiouser and curiouser!"
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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📖 International Women's Day: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A fierce tale of an independent woman who refuses to compromise her principles. Published in 1847, Jane Eyre was revolutionary for its portrayal of a woman's inner life and moral strength. Still powerful today.
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📅 This Day in Literature — April 15
Born on this day: Henry James (1843)
Master of the psychological novel. The Turn of the Screw still terrifies readers.
📅 This Day in Literature — April 14
Remembered today: Abraham Lincoln (1865)
At Ford's Theatre watching a play. His love of Shakespeare was legendary.
BookShelves v1.0.5 is here!
This update focuses on reliability and security, with dozens of under-the-hood improvements to make BookShelves more robust with every book format we support.
Free on the App Store: https://lk0.eu/bks745m
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
— Frederick Douglass
BookShelves v1.0.4 is out!
Big reader update:
- Swipe to turn pages on iOS
- 8 reader themes — Dark Academia, Night Sky, Ocean Mist & more — with in-reader theme picker
- Adjustable font size
- "Want to Read" status for your to-read list
- Faster imports with lower memory usage
- Improved MOBI and KF8 support
- Better PDF cover extraction
Plus: "Report an Issue" in the Help menu.
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📖 "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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BookShelves v1.0.3 is out!
What's new:
- "Unshelved" smart shelf — find books not on any shelf
- Drag and drop multiple books to shelves
- OPDS server search with Bonjour auto-discovery
- Language badges on Discover book cards
- Improved chapter tracking for single-file EPUBs
- iCloud sync reliability fixes
Free on the App Store:
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💡 Did You Know?
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at age 18 during a ghost story contest at Lake Geneva in 1816.
What classic have you been meaning to read but haven't started yet?
📅 This Day in Literature — March 3
Born on this day: Alexander Graham Bell (1847)
Also the birthday of literature itself — it's World Book Day in the UK!
📖 Read Across America Day: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Celebrate reading with this beloved tale of boyhood adventure along the Mississippi. Tom Sawyer's mischief, treasure hunting, and timeless fun have delighted readers for over a century.
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