Explore Any Book Chapter by Chapter - Without the Spoilers
OpenFiction Team18 April 20264 min read
You're halfway through The Well of Ascension. A character appears whose name you half-remember from a hundred pages ago. You want to know who they are, what their deal is, where they fit into the story. So you open a browser tab. And immediately close it again.
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New ways to explore characters across a series
OpenFiction Team6 April 20262 min read
OpenFiction started as a spoiler-safe character reference. But the more series we add, the more it becomes something else too: a genuinely useful way to explore who's in a series, how they're connected, and where they show up. Today's update adds to that.
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How OpenFiction Tracks Characters Across Books
OpenFiction Team8 March 20265 min read
Most character databases treat a character as a single page of information - a description, some attributes, maybe a list of books they appear in. OpenFiction does something different: it tracks characters through books, chapter by chapter, recording what changes and when. This post explains what that means in practice and why we built it this way.
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