Hardbound alternatives

Medium taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers, thinkers, and storytellers to bring you the smartest takes on topics that matter.

Books are no longer theoretical knowledge. We turn non-fiction books into a fun, useful and practical way to learn. Each book is a course!

Read addictive chat stories for free with Tap by Wattpad Dive into fun and exciting stories that drop you right into the action, and reveals itself one line at a time, as if you’re reading someone else’s texts.

LongShorts is like taking the cast of your favorite show and following their stories in real-time on Twitter. • Each new "chapter" (aka status) fits into a few tweets • Stories update in "real" time from the characters accounts • They're ready to escape with you whenever you have a second!

Lure features a huge collection of chat fiction; short stories told with text messages, like if you were watching somebody else’s conversation. From suspense fuelled thrillers and horror stories to hilarious group chats, Lure’s chat stories deliver traditional stories in a gripping, engaging new way.

Fit knowts helps trainers, coaches, athletes and well enthusiasts learn from the best in less time—we deliver the key points, key terms and cover-to-cover summaries of the top and bestselling titles in health and fitness.

We curate non-English books from China, Japan and Korea, translate and summarise them so that English readers can gain more knowledge in less time. We are currently gathering early-access subscribers. Our app is targeted to launch in early next year.

The Quill Report is an experiment that periodically collects news and scans content for objectivity using semantic analysis. Articles with unacceptable content or from publishers with overwhelmingly unacceptable historical content are filtered out.

Novelo is a collaborative story-telling platform where you can write and, read share exciting stories! Our main aim is to make self-publishing fun and easy and will be releasing tools to reach that goal!