Sophia, the Keeper of the Library

Sophia's Library

A library of the world's sacred and classical books, and the Keeper who knows every page. Wander three thousand years of human wisdom: the life of Jesus and the lost gospels, forgotten prophets, Indian epics and Zen riddles, Greek philosophers, Persian poets and medieval chroniclers. Hundreds of books on her shelves, and new ones arriving all the time.

Sophia is more than a reader. Open a book together and she'll read it aloud, stopping whenever you want to ask what it means. Close it and she's just good company: someone to talk with about your day, your questions, or nothing much at all. She keeps your days in order too, from tasks and plans to the things you meant to remember. And the more time you spend together, the better she knows you.

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Time with Sophia

  1. Read togetherPick any book on her shelves and she'll read it aloud, illustrated, stopping whenever you have a question.
  2. Talk about anythingYour day, a hard question, or nothing much at all. She remembers what you tell her.
  3. Never lose a thoughtTasks, plans and the things you meant to remember. She'll keep track and remind you.

The shelves

Christianity

150 books

The Bible, the Church and its history

Enoch · Didache · Augustine — Confessions · Shepherd of Hermas · Gospel of John

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Old Testament

  • Genesis
  • Exodus
  • Leviticus
  • Numbers
  • Deuteronomy
  • Joshua
  • Judges
  • Ruth
  • 1 Samuel
  • 2 Samuel
  • 1 Kings
  • 2 Kings
  • 1 Chronicles
  • 2 Chronicles
  • Ezra
  • Nehemiah
  • Esther
  • Job
  • Psalms
  • Proverbs
  • Ecclesiastes
  • Song of Solomon
  • Isaiah
  • Jeremiah
  • Lamentations
  • Ezekiel
  • Daniel
  • Hosea
  • Joel
  • Amos
  • Obadiah
  • Jonah
  • Micah
  • Nahum
  • Habakkuk
  • Zephaniah
  • Haggai
  • Zechariah
  • Malachi

Middle Testament

  • Tobit
  • Judith
  • Additions to Esther
  • Wisdom of Solomon
  • Sirach
  • Baruch
  • Letter of Jeremiah
  • The Song of the Three Holy Children
  • Susannah
  • Bel and the Dragon
  • 1 Maccabees
  • 2 Maccabees
  • 1 Esdras
  • 3 Maccabees
  • Prayer of Manasseh
  • Psalm 151
  • 4 Maccabees
  • 2 Esdras

Lost Testament

  • Enoch
  • Jubilees
  • Ascension of Isaiah
  • 4 Baruch
  • The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
  • 2 Enoch: The Book of the Secrets of Enoch
  • The Life of Adam and Eve
  • The Psalms of Solomon
  • The Apocalypse of Abraham
  • The Sibylline Oracles

New Testament

  • Gospel of Matthew
  • Gospel of Mark
  • Gospel of Luke
  • Gospel of John
  • Acts
  • Romans
  • 1 Corinthians
  • 2 Corinthians
  • Galatians
  • Ephesians
  • Philippians
  • Colossians
  • 1 Thessalonians
  • 2 Thessalonians
  • 1 Timothy
  • 2 Timothy
  • Titus
  • Philemon
  • Hebrews
  • James
  • 1 Peter
  • 2 Peter
  • 1 John
  • 2 John
  • 3 John
  • Jude
  • Revelation

Late Testament

  • Protoevangelium of James
  • Gospel of Nicodemus
  • The Acts of John
  • The Acts of Paul and Thecla
  • The Acts of Thomas
  • The Apocalypse of Peter
  • The Odes of Solomon

Apostolic Fathers

  • 1 Clement
  • 2 Clement
  • Ignatius of Antioch — The Letters
  • Didache
  • Shepherd of Hermas

Early Church

  • Augustine — Confessions
  • Augustine — City of God I
  • Augustine — City of God II
  • Athanasius — Life of Antony
  • The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
  • Egeria — The Pilgrimage of Etheria
  • Chasing Halos

East and West

  • Photius — Encyclical to the Eastern Patriarchs
  • The Schism of 1054: Bull and Counter-Bull
  • Anselm — On the Procession of the Holy Spirit
  • The Council of Florence: Union and Refusal
  • Adrian Fortescue — The Orthodox Eastern Church
  • Aleksey Khomiakov — The Church Is One
  • Arthur Penrhyn Stanley — Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church

The Crusades

  • Anna Komnene — The Alexiad
  • The First Crusade: Eyewitness Accounts
  • Usamah ibn Munqidh — Memoirs
  • Villehardouin — The Conquest of Constantinople
  • Joinville — The Life of Saint Louis

Reformation

  • Luther — Theses and Primary Works
  • The Augsburg Confession
  • The Council of Trent
  • The Peace of Westphalia

Devotion

  • The Imitation of Christ
  • The Practice of the Presence of God
  • Jean-Pierre de Caussade — Abandonment to Divine Providence
  • Francis de Sales — Introduction to the Devout Life
  • Thomas Traherne — Centuries of Meditations
  • William Law — A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
  • The Little Flowers of St Francis
  • Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying Well)
  • Carmina Gadelica, Volume I

The Chronicles

  • The Nativity
  • The Lost Childhood
  • The Baptism
  • The Feeding of the Five Thousand
  • The Transfiguration
  • The Temple Cleansing
  • The Last Supper
  • The Trial
  • The Crucifixion
  • The Descent into Hell
  • The Empty Tomb
  • The Resurrection Appearances

Islam

20 books

The Qur'an and its poets and thinkers

The Quran · Masnavi · Hafiz — Divan · The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam · Ibn Khaldun — The Muqaddimah, Selections

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Qur'an & Tradition

  • The Quran
  • Sahih al-Bukhari — Selections
  • Nawawi — The Forty Hadith
  • Ali — Nahj al-Balagha, Selections
  • Zayn al-Abidin — al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya

Islamic Thought

  • Ibn Tufayl — Hayy ibn Yaqzan
  • Ghazali — Deliverance from Error
  • Averroes — The Decisive Treatise
  • Ibn Khaldun — The Muqaddimah, Selections

Sufism

  • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
  • Gulistan
  • Bustan
  • The Alchemy of Happiness
  • Hafiz — Divan
  • Attar — Bird Parliament
  • Attar — Memorial of the Saints: Rabia and Hallaj
  • Hujwiri — The Kashf al-Mahjub
  • Masnavi

Bahá'í

  • Baha'u'llah — The Book of Certitude
  • Baha'u'llah — The Hidden Words

Judaism

13 books

Torah sages, philosophers and historians

Pirkei Avot — Sayings of the Fathers · Maimonides — Guide for the Perplexed I · Judah Halevi — The Kuzari · Josephus — The Jewish War

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Jewish Thought

  • Pirkei Avot — Sayings of the Fathers
  • Tales of the Talmud
  • Judah Halevi — The Kuzari
  • Maimonides — Guide for the Perplexed I
  • Maimonides — Guide for the Perplexed II
  • Maimonides — Guide for the Perplexed III
  • Josephus — Antiquities of the Jews I
  • Josephus — Antiquities of the Jews II
  • Josephus — The Jewish War
  • Josephus — Life and Against Apion
  • Philo of Alexandria — Selected Works
  • Josippon
  • Not in Heaven

Dharmic

53 books

Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh paths

Bhagavad Gita · The Upanishads · The Dhammapada · The Diamond Sutra · Japji Sahib

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Hindu

  • Bhagavad Gita
  • The Ashtavakra Gita
  • Dattatreya — The Avadhuta Gita
  • Rig Veda
  • The Upanishads
  • Tagore — Sadhana
  • The Laws of Manu
  • Ramayana
  • Yajur Veda
  • The Atharva Veda
  • Sama Veda
  • Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
  • Vivekananda — Raja Yoga
  • Ramakrishna — The Gospel of Ramakrishna
  • Vivekananda — Karma Yoga
  • Vivekananda — Bhakti Yoga
  • Vivekananda — Jnana Yoga
  • Devi Mahatmya
  • The Vishnu Purana
  • Mahabharata I — Origins & Preparation
  • Mahabharata II — The Great War
  • Mahabharata III — Aftermath & Ascent

Buddhist

  • The Diamond Sutra
  • The Heart Sutra
  • The Lotus Sutra
  • The Platform Sutra
  • The Dhammapada
  • Sutta Nipata
  • The Great Decease and Other Suttas
  • The Quarrel at Kosambi
  • The Questions of King Milinda I
  • The Questions of King Milinda II
  • Jataka Tales
  • The Gateless Gate
  • Dōgen — Selected Writings
  • Chōmei — An Account of My Hut
  • Kenkō — Essays in Idleness
  • Huangbo — The Transmission of Mind
  • Linji — The Record of Linji
  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead
  • Śāntideva — The Path of Light
  • Aśvaghoṣa — The Buddhacarita
  • Faxian — A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
  • Xuanzang — Buddhist Records of the Western World, Volume I
  • Xuanzang — Buddhist Records of the Western World, Volume II

Sikh & Jain

  • Japji Sahib
  • Macauliffe — The Sikh Religion, Volume 1
  • Macauliffe — The Sikh Religion, Volume 2
  • Macauliffe — The Sikh Religion, Volume 3
  • Macauliffe — The Sikh Religion, Volume 4
  • Macauliffe — The Sikh Religion, Volume 5
  • Macauliffe — The Sikh Religion, Volume 6
  • Jaina Sutras

Taoic

15 books

Tao, Confucius and Shinto

Tao Te Ching · Chuang Tzu · I Ching · Confucian Analects · Kojiki

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Taoist

  • Tao Te Ching
  • Sun Tzu — The Art of War
  • Chuang Tzu
  • I Ching
  • Lieh Tzu

Confucian

  • Confucian Analects
  • The Book of Songs
  • Mencius
  • Xunzi — The Works of Hsuntze
  • Mozi — The Ethical and Political Works
  • Great Learning
  • Doctrine of the Mean

Shinto

  • Kojiki
  • Nihongi I
  • Nihongi II

Philosophy & Science

72 books

From the Greeks to Einstein

Plato — Republic · Meditations · Seneca — Letters to Lucilius · C. G. Jung — Psychological Types · Origin of Species

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Greek & Roman

  • Plato — Republic
  • Heraclitus — The Fragments
  • Plato — Symposium
  • Plato — Phaedrus
  • Plato — Gorgias
  • Plato — Meno
  • Plato — Crito
  • Plato — Timaeus
  • Plato — Apology
  • Plato — Phaedo
  • Lucretius — On the Nature of Things
  • Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics
  • Aristotle — Politics
  • Aristotle — Poetics
  • Epictetus — The Enchiridion
  • Epictetus — Discourses
  • Seneca — Letters to Lucilius
  • Cicero — On Old Age and On Friendship
  • Plutarch — On Tranquillity of Mind
  • Boethius — Consolation of Philosophy

Philosophy

  • Enneads
  • Meditations
  • Ethics
  • Kant — Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
  • Hume — An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  • Gathas
  • The Vendidad
  • The Bundahishn
  • Varieties of Religious Experience
  • Evelyn Underhill — Mysticism I: The Mystic Fact
  • Evelyn Underhill — Mysticism II: The Mystic Way
  • Richard Maurice Bucke — Cosmic Consciousness
  • Rudolf Otto — The Idea of the Holy
  • Eastman — The Soul of the Indian
  • Eastman — From the Deep Woods to Civilization
  • Zitkala-Sa — American Indian Stories
  • Freud — The Interpretation of Dreams
  • C. G. Jung — Psychology of the Unconscious
  • C. G. Jung — Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology
  • C. G. Jung — Psychological Types
  • C. G. Jung — Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  • Tolstoy — A Confession
  • Tolstoy — The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  • Tolstoy — The Kingdom of God Is Within You
  • Dostoevsky — The Grand Inquisitor
  • The Common Thread
  • Tiruvalluvar — The Tirukkural
  • Montaigne — Essays, Book I
  • Montaigne — Essays, Book II
  • Montaigne — Essays, Book III
  • Musashi — The Book of Five Rings
  • Machiavelli — The Prince
  • More — Utopia
  • Pascal — Pensées
  • Descartes — Meditations on First Philosophy
  • Samuel Smiles — Self-Help

Transcendentalism

  • Emerson — Essays
  • James Allen — As a Man Thinketh
  • Ralph Waldo Trine — In Tune with the Infinite
  • Walden
  • Leaves of Grass
  • The Prophet
  • Kahlil Gibran — The Madman
  • Kahlil Gibran — Sand and Foam
  • Kahlil Gibran — Jesus, the Son of Man

Science

  • Origin of Species
  • Voyage of the Beagle
  • Relativity: The Special and General Theory
  • Humboldt — Cosmos
  • Galileo — The Sidereal Messenger
  • Newton — The System of the World

Story & Song

49 books

Myths, epics, plays and poems

The Epic of Gilgamesh · The Odyssey · Beowulf · The Divine Comedy · Arabian Nights

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Mythology

  • Aesop's Fables
  • Brothers Grimm — Grimms' Fairy Tales
  • A Hundred Merry Tales
  • Till Eulenspiegel
  • Panchatantra
  • Metamorphoses
  • Mabinogion
  • Kalevala
  • Poetic Edda
  • Prose Edda
  • Popol Vuh
  • Yoruba Legends
  • Australian Legends
  • Works and Days
  • Arabian Nights
  • James George Frazer — The Golden Bough I
  • James George Frazer — The Golden Bough II

Epics

  • The Aeneid
  • Beowulf
  • The Tale of Igor's Campaign
  • The Divine Comedy
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Ferdowsi — The Epic of Kings
  • The Iliad
  • Le Morte d'Arthur
  • Paradise Lost
  • Bunyan — The Pilgrim's Progress
  • The Odyssey
  • Aeschylus — The Oresteia
  • Sophocles — The Theban Plays
  • Euripides — The Bacchae
  • Aristophanes — The Frogs
  • Aristophanes — The Clouds
  • Aristophanes — The Birds
  • Goethe — Faust, Part One
  • Murasaki Shikibu — The Tale of Genji, Part One
  • Hesse — Siddhartha
  • The Kebra Nagast

Poetry

  • Blake — Prophetic Works
  • Gitanjali
  • Rilke — Letters to a Young Poet
  • Dickinson — Poems
  • Kabir — Poems
  • Lalla — Lalla-Vakyani
  • Jayadeva — The Indian Song of Songs
  • Basho — The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  • Hanshan — Cold Mountain Poems
  • Ryōkan — Poems
  • Ikkyū — Crazy Cloud Anthology

The Hidden Wing

56 books

Written in cipher, kept in silence

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Questions

Whose translations are these?
Public-domain editions, such as the World English Bible for scripture, and a few translations of our own.
What does a card limit?
Private tutoring: talking things over with Sophia. Listening to her read is unlimited on every card.
What if I run out?
She'll still open books and read to you. Tutoring comes back when your month resets, or straight away on a bigger card.
Do mature conversations cost more?
They use your tutoring allowance faster.
Can I cancel?
Anytime, from Manage billing. Your card number stays yours.
Does a card open the Hidden Wing?
No. That key is Sophia's to give.