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Welcome to the AFUDU Fantasy & Folklore Library, a curated collection of 94 public-domain works spanning fairy tales, folklore, fantasy classics, and myths. These pages help you explore the catalog in different ways: find a book that matches your interests, compare titles side by side, or get a realistic estimate of reading time. Each tool draws on the same factual data, so you can move between them without losing context.
Browse the cards below to see which approach suits you. Whether you are looking for a specific type of story, weighing two editions, or planning your next read, the tools are designed to give you clear, useful information at a glance.
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Compare Books
See two books side by side, with details like word count, reading time, and subjects, to help you decide which one to start.
Plan Your Reading
Estimate how long a book will take based on its length and your reading speed. The tool uses the catalog's median reading times to give a realistic range.
Three Tools, One Library: Choosing, Comparing, and Tracking
The AFUDU Fantasy & Folklore Library holds 94 public-domain works spread across fairy tales, folklore, fantasy classics, and myths and legends. With that many volumes, the first question is rarely about a single book; it is about how to move through the collection without losing sight of what you came for. The library’s three tools—Book Finder, Compare Books, and Reading Tracker—are designed to answer different parts of that question, and they work best when used together.
Book Finder narrows the field. Compare Books lets you weigh two or three candidates side by side. Reading Tracker then turns a chosen book into a daily plan. None of the tools rate literary quality; they describe measurable features such as word count, estimated reading time, chapter rhythm, and sentence flow. That distinction matters because a book like The Boy's King Arthur Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table — Reading Companion (about 91,000 words, 396 minutes) can be a deliberate choice for a longer commitment, not a better or worse one than a shorter fairy tale.
Start with Finder, Then Compare
Book Finder is the entry point when you have a rough sense of what you want—say, a fairy tale collection or a legend from a particular region. You can filter by category, length, estimated reading time, chapter rhythm, sentence flow, or subject. The tool lets you leave any criterion blank, and no-preference choices do not penalize books. So you can start broad, like selecting the Fantasy Classics category, and then look at the results.
Once Finder returns a shortlist, Compare Books becomes useful. Suppose you are torn between two Arthurian retellings: The Story of the Champions of the Round Table — A Closer Reading (128,863 words, 561 minutes, 16 sections) and Knightly Legends of Wales (101,535 words, 442 minutes, 10 sections). Compare Books shows these numbers side by side, making the difference in length and structure obvious before you commit.
Use Compare to Refine Your Shortlist
Compare Books is not about declaring a winner. It is about seeing how a difference in word count or section count might change your reading experience. A book with 134 sections, like The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 — Story, Setting & Ideas, offers many natural stopping points, while a single-section tale like Red Riding Hood — A Closer Reading (3,828 words) is a one-sitting read. Knowing that can help you match a book to your available time and attention.
The comparison tool also displays subjects, which can be decisive. If you want a book about King Arthur, you can see at a glance that The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur — Background and Themes carries the subject 'Arthur, King -- Legends,' while a book like Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales does not. That kind of metadata is often more useful than a vague sense of 'related' books.
When you have settled on a book, the next step is planning how to read it. That is where the Reading Tracker comes in.
Track Progress with a Daily Goal
The Reading Tracker records progress in pages, not minutes or sections. If a book has no fixed page count, it estimates the total pages as word count divided by 250 words per page. For The Boy's King Arthur, that works out to roughly 364 pages. You can replace that estimate with the page count from your own edition if you prefer.
Set a daily page goal—20 is the default—and the tracker estimates how many days remain. Because the estimate is simply remaining pages divided by your daily goal, you can adjust the goal as your schedule changes. The tracker stores your history in the browser, so you can close the tab and pick up where you left off without creating an account.