Jane AustenPride and Prejudice
Classic · 6 min
Pride and Prejudice
A sharp, funny story about first impressions, pride, family pressure, and learning to see another person clearly.
A Stefan Motz side project · Prototype v0.1
Discover the book that may change yours.
Swipe through books worth knowing. Read a quick introduction, listen while the words are highlighted, and open the full summary when something catches your curiosity.
This first prototype uses a small hand-picked catalog while I shape the discovery experience.
Why I Am Building This
Books have been opening doors for me since childhood.
I grew up loving books, later created Globusz Publishing to make ebooks easier to find, and spent more than a decade formatting and publishing books online. The old project is gone, but my interest never disappeared.
In retirement I want to return to that unfinished interest in a different form: not simply putting books online, but helping people discover them, understand them, listen to them, and perhaps find one that quietly changes the direction of their lives.
Read more about StefanPrototype Catalog
Start with a few very different books.
Marcus AureliusMeditations
Philosophy · 6 min
Meditations
Private notes from a Roman emperor reminding himself how to remain decent, disciplined, and calm in a difficult world.
Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo
Classic · 7 min
The Count of Monte Cristo
A wrongfully imprisoned young sailor escapes, acquires a fortune, and spends years engineering revenge on those who destroyed his life.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Mystery · 5 min
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Twelve cases that made Sherlock Holmes the enduring symbol of close observation and deductive reasoning.
Discover, don't scroll blindly
Each recommendation should help you find a book that might genuinely matter to you.
Understand before you commit
Read a substantial introduction, see why the book matters, then decide whether you want the complete work.
Listen while you read
The prototype includes browser narration with synchronized word highlighting where the browser provides speech boundaries.
Follow ideas across cultures
Books are connected by themes, life impact, mood, and ideas—not only by bookstore genre labels.
Where This Is Going
From prototype to a large, trustworthy discovery library.
The next stages are Project Gutenberg metadata ingestion, source-grounded AI summaries, quality review, recommendation signals, saved libraries, generated narration with reliable timestamps, and Amazon purchase links where useful.