Your digitallibrary.
Own your books. Read on any device. Keep your annotations. Plinth is a quiet, durable home for everything you read — built for readers who plan to keep what they buy.
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A plinth is the base on which something stands. We chose the name because a library should be a foundation — not a feed. A place that holds the books you've chosen, in the order you've chosen them, on whatever device you happen to be holding tonight. Quiet. Yours.
The reader
Built for the way you read.
A reading experience designed to disappear — so the words don't. Native apps for phone and tablet. Generous typography, considered margins, pencil-soft highlights, and notes that travel with you across every device you sign into.
PlinthEverything you own, organised the way you want.
PlinthMargins, line height, and type set by you.
PlinthYours forever. Exportable any time.
Ownership
In plain terms.
Five things we believe a digital library should do. Five things most don't.
- 01
Your library travels with you.
Read on phone, tablet, laptop, or e-reader. Your books are tied to you, not a device or a single store.
- 02
Buy directly from publishers.
More of what you pay reaches the people who made the book — not the rails it moved through.
- 03
Read offline.
Once a book is in your library, it stays there. No connection required, no servers to check in with.
- 04
Keep your annotations.
Highlights and notes belong to you, exportable anywhere, even if Plinth is no longer the place you read.
- 05
Support independent publishing.
A library that values smaller voices alongside the well-known ones — and pays accordingly.
Plinth is a project of Athenium — built for readers, publishers, and writers who care about the long view.
Independent. Reader-owned. Quietly built in Australia.