Fablum
OPDS reader
Free classics from the built-in public catalog.
Fablum comes with one built-in public catalog of public-domain ebooks, already set up. It opens on the library's own front page: its shelves, the counts it publishes, and books underneath. You don't need an account, and nothing in Fablum charges you for reaching it.
- Catalog
- One built-in public catalog, with tens of thousands of public-domain titles1
- Find
- Shelves, the catalog's own search, or a language filter
- Languages
- The languages the catalog answers for, named in your own language
- Book page
- Cover, the catalog's description, the file and its size, the other formats
- Ebooks
- Downloaded into your library, then readable offline
- Already yours
- A book you have is marked "In your library" as you browse
- Connection
- Needed to browse and download
Search the catalog.
Tap the search icon and type a title or an author. Fablum asks the catalog where its own search lives, so what comes back is the catalog's answer, in the catalog's order. Before you type, the catalog's own example queries have the screen to themselves.
Books in your language.
A labelled button under the shelves reads "Any language" until you choose one, then names the language it is set to. It offers the languages this catalog answers for, not a list of every language in the world, and it says whether the catalog narrowed the books or Fablum narrowed them on screen.
Three taps to a free book.
- 1Tap + in your library and choose Catalogs.
- 2Browse a shelf, or search the catalog.
- 3Open the book and tap Add to library.
What OPDS is.
OPDS (Open Publication Distribution System) is an open standard for publishing book catalogs on the web. Reading apps use it to browse, search and download books. Fablum supports it natively, and the catalog it ships with — Project Gutenberg's — is an OPDS catalog that comes pre-configured. In the app the menu row that opens it reads "Catalogs".
1 Catalog titles are public domain in the USA. Copyright terms differ between countries, so check yours before you download.
Start with 5 books.
Free on the App Store and Google Play.