Wolne Lektury

• Search booksSearch the Wolne Lektury catalogue by title and by author. Words match from the start of a word, so 'pan' finds 'Pan Tadeusz'; works whose author matched are returned before works whose title did. Every filter is optional and they combine: narrow to an author, an epoch, a kind or a genre, to works that have an audiobook, or to the ones Polish schools set as required reading.
• List booksBrowse one of the catalogue's shelves: every work, whole works only, the ones with a human-read audiobook, the ones with a DAISY accessible audiobook, the editors' picks, or the most recently published. Narrow any of the first four by author, epoch, kind and genre together. Two of the shelves return each work's download links in place of its epoch, kind, genre and audio flag: 'has_download_links' on the result says which shape came back.
• Get a bookFetch one work by its slug, with its authors and translators, its epoch, kind and genre, a download link for every format it is published in, every audiobook file recorded for it, its cover, and the works it contains or belongs to.
• Get download linksList every file Wolne Lektury publishes for a work (plain text, PDF, EPUB, Kindle, FictionBook, HTML and the library's own source XML, plus every audiobook file), each with a readable label and a direct URL. Pick a format to also get its URL on its own, ready to hand to a download step. An audiobook is normally one file per chapter, so a chosen audio format returns the whole list as well as the first file.
• Get book textDownload the full text of a work, ready to summarise, quote or search. The file opens with the author and the title and closes with the library's licence and provenance notice; the notice is removed by default, and the text is cut off at the character limit you set.
• List tagsList the library's authors, literary epochs, kinds, genres or themes, each with the slug every other action's filters take. This is where those slugs come from: the library's vocabularies are curated by its editors, so nothing else can be relied on to spell them. Terms come back in slug order, so a large vocabulary can be walked a page at a time with 'Continue after'.
• Get a tagFetch one author, epoch, kind, genre or theme, with the editorial description the library writes for it: a biographical note for an author, an account of the period for an epoch, a definition for a genre. Use it to explain a term a search or a listing returned. The library writes these notes as web page markup, so they come back both as readable text and, as 'description_html', in the original markup.
• Find fragmentsFind the passages the library's editors have indexed under a theme (love, death, betrayal, the passing of time) and, optionally, narrowed to one author, epoch, kind or genre. This index is hand-made and goes down to the passage, so it answers 'what does Polish Romanticism say about the homeland' rather than 'which books mention it'. At least one filter is required. A listing names each passage; turn on 'Include the text' to fetch the words too. Wolne Lektury serves this listing whole, so a broad theme is cut to the number of results you ask for and 'total_count' reports how many there were.
• Get a fragmentFetch one indexed passage: its words, the work and author it comes from, and every theme the library's editors filed it under. Find fragments returns the work and the anchor this takes. The passage is stored as web page markup, so it comes back both as readable text and, as 'text_html', with the original markup and its emphasis intact.
• List collectionsList the library's curated collections: the reading lists its editors put together, such as the set texts for a school year or a selection on one subject. Each comes back with the slug Get a collection takes.
• Get a collectionFetch one curated collection: what it is for, every work on it, and the authors it is built around. List collections returns the slug this takes.

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