About the library

Paperhall is a curated digital library — 3,672 public-domain books by 2,044 authors, read quietly as real, page-turning books. It was built to feel like walking into a library, not opening a bookstore.

What's on the shelves

3,672 books across 16 shelves — Fiction, Philosophy, Science, History, Poetry, Drama, Essays, Academic, Children, Adventure, Mystery, Global Classics, Hindi, Self & Stoic, Sci-Fi and Memoir. From Homer, Shakespeare and Dostoevsky to a deep Academic shelf — economics, mathematics, psychology, law, political science, and the natural sciences — and a Hindi shelf in Devanagari: Premchand, Jaishankar Prasad, Nirala, Tulsidas, Kabir, Surdas and the classics. Every book is in the public domain, sourced from Project Gutenberg and Hindi Wikisource, cleaned of boilerplate for comfortable reading.

How it works

• A single JSON manifest (data/books.json) is the whole catalogue.
• Each book's text is stored as clean HTML on a CDN and fetched on demand — so the library can grow without limit.
• The text is paginated in your browser into a two-page spread and turned with a real page-flip.
• Your shelf, bookmarks, highlights and reading progress stay in your browser's localStorage — nothing leaves your device.

Reading it

Open any book and it lays out as a real two-page spread you turn with a page-flip (← / →, or swipe on a phone). Three paper themes — paper, sepia, night — three type sizes, a serif/sans toggle, and a chapter drawer. Select any passage and pick a colour to highlight it; it's saved to that book. Tap the star to keep a book on your shelf, and it remembers where you left off.

Built slowly, read slowly.