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Douban Reading, your novel world.

Douban Reading is a high-quality genre novel platform under Douban.

We specialize in genres such as suspense, femininity, fantasy, literature, and history, emphasizing the combination of literary and popular elements to create high-quality novels that are "never-ending while reading, and memorable after reading".

Douban Reading is an active community for creators and readers to communicate. Here, you can have in-depth discussions and exchanges with more Douban friends. You can follow, subscribe, comment, and send flowers to your favorite works and authors.

In Douban Reading, you can——

Read high-quality novels

The five major channels of suspense, women, fantasy, literature, and history have high-quality novels with a rating of 8.0 or above on Douban, which have been verified by Douban reader data.

• Absolutely original, with over 9000 new works per month, and more than half of the works available for free reading. From the most outstanding young creators of today.

Nearly 100000 carefully formatted genuine e-books, including those from renowned publishers such as CITIC, Reader, Guomai, and Motie.

Subscribe to the author's long serialization

• Subscription: Column and serialization updates are available, with timely reminders.

Sending flowers: Send flowers to your beloved works and help them become flower gods.

Annotations: You can annotate any detail in the book. Douban Reading adds over 60000 new annotations every month, and reading amazing annotations from book lovers is a unique pleasure of using Douban Reading.

Comment: By reading comments on Douban, you can get the author's immediate response. Douban Reading adds over 15000 new comments every month, and the sparks of thought between authors and readers are as beautiful as the novel itself.

• Book Gift: Supports giving books to friends, can be given one-on-one, can also purchase multiple books at once to give to multiple friends, and can also write a gift message.

Find the e-book you want to read

• Various rankings are updated in real-time based on popularity, word count updates, and positive reviews, helping to select the best looking works.

Multiple methods for filtering and sorting works, including classification by works, price range, popularity, and publication time, help select the most desired works.

Personalized novel recommendations, guess your preferences correctly; Edit a selection of themed books and provide the most professional perspective for book selection.

Enjoy a delicate reading experience

Exquisite book content layout, presenting the most beautiful details, supporting annotations, underlining, and adding bookmarks while reading, free trial reading of all works, downloadable works to local, and offline reading at any time.

Purchased works, reading progress, bookmarks, notes, etc. can be synchronized in real-time across multiple devices.

Become an author to write and publish your first work

Open Writing Platform: A self publishing platform for original works, open for submission (please visit on your computer) https://read.douban.com/submit/ ）Provide online sales, operation, and promotion services for works.

Copyright operation: Provide reliable copyright operation services for works, including film and television adaptations, paper book publishing, and other copyright businesses. Several original works have successfully sold their film and television adaptation rights, covering various themes such as women, workplace, urban, suspense, and fantasy. Nearly a hundred paper books have been published one after another.

Essay Contest: A large-scale competition hosted for six consecutive years, divided into groups, where young award-winning authors are selected from each group, including workplace romance, life suspense, fantasy novels, and literary novels. It has become the most important debut competition for young authors in China.