Author Today

Author Today is an official Android application that allows you to search, read self-published literary works, and publish books. The developer of the utility is the famous literary portal of the same name. The application allows you to evaluate samizdat, discuss new works.

The application library

Author Today offers literary users the opportunity to publish their own works in electronic form, allowing legal access to them. The application library contains a huge number of works by contemporary literary figures. It is possible to search for a necessary book by its title or author. You can search in a specific genre, uninteresting ones can be excluded. The application catalog contains books in the following genres: action, mysticism, horror, crime, love literature, fantasy and others. The library can be sorted according to different filters: publication time, popularity, comments, number of likes, views. Therefore, the selection of content is maximized. Each posted work contains a short abstract, a list of genres, a list of tags, a cover or a corresponding illustration. There is information about the number of characters and pages, the number of likes, reviews and comments from readers. A certain part of books becomes available only after subscribing.

Features of the reader

The application provides the ability to download, add books to your personal library, making various notes. To activate the function, authorization via email will be required. The utility's built-in reader allows you to read literature online. For convenient use, there is an opportunity to choose a suitable font, background color, screen brightness, page orientation.

User communication

The principle of functioning is a social platform, in which there is a discussion on interesting topics: reviews of read works, personal, latest news, notes.

Characteristics

• Legal access to new literature;
• Existence of a reader;
• Presence of interesting contests;
• Communication with other readers, discussion of what you have read;
• Search with a large number of different filters.