A catalog of four hundred authors and close to three thousand works is a wonderful thing to have and a slightly daunting thing to browse. Here are a handful of changes meant to help you find your way.

First, there’s a new A–Z Author Index — every author we carry on a single page, listed with their lifespans, each name linking through to their full page. When you know who you’re looking for, it’s the fastest way there. When you don’t, it’s a pleasant way to browse.

Author pages themselves now make a distinction we’d been missing. There’s a clear separation between “Works by” an author — their own writing — and “About & Related Works,” which gathers the biographies, collected editions, and studies written about them. It’s an old bookseller’s habit, really: keeping Augustine’s Confessions on a different shelf from the books about Augustine. Now you can tell at a glance which is which.

If you’d rather be introduced to someone new, we’ve added an Author of the Day and a Work of the Day — a different figure and a different text surfaced each day. A small standing invitation to meet a writer you might never have gone looking for.

We’ve also started building Collections: curated reading lists that mix authors and works around a theme, each with its own page. If a list appeals to you, one click adds the whole thing. You can also narrow the timeline down to a single collection, and that filtered view has its own web address — so if you want to hand someone a particular path through the material, you can just send them the link.

Last, you’ll notice a “Report an issue” button on author and work pages. A catalog this size, reaching back this far, will have errors in it — a wrong date, a misattributed work, a name spelled two ways. If you spot one, that button tells us, and we act on it. Corrections genuinely make the catalog better, which is something we’re glad to say out loud on our About the Data page.

None of this changes the basics. The free public-domain texts are still free, and the timeline is still the front door. We’ve just added a few more ways in.