Find something
worth your time.
Books, audiobooks, courses and notes — and the people already discussing them. Browse the whole of OpenTrib before you decide to join anything.
- No account
- Needed to browse
- Six verbs
- Instead of categories
- Yours
- Whatever you buy
From a question to the people asking it too.
Four steps, and you can stop after any of them. Most people never get past the second, which is fine — that is where the reading is.
Start with curiosity
A question, a subject, or a vague sense of what you are in the mood for. You do not need an account to look around.
Find something worth it
Work is filed by what you want to do with it — read, listen, learn — rather than by category, so you can browse the way you actually think.
Read it your way
Books, audiobooks, courses and notes, kept together in one place you can return to. Your highlights stay with the passage that earned them.
Find the people too
Every idea has a room where people are already discussing it. Follow the creators worth following and hear when they make something new.
Built for reading, not for engagement.
Six things that are true of OpenTrib whether you have an account or not.
Browse before you belong
The marketplace and the communities are open to read without an account. You decide to join after you have seen whether it is for you.
Your library is yours
What you buy stays in one place, in the formats you bought it in, with your notes and highlights kept beside it.
Filed by intent, not taxonomy
Read, Listen, Learn, Create, Connect, Grow. Six human verbs instead of a category tree you have to learn first.
The conversation comes with it
A book leads to its creator, who leads to a room of people reading the same thing. That path is the point, not a feature bolted on.
Support goes to the maker
Buying someone's work is the most direct way to tell them to keep going, and to help them do it.
Quiet by default
No streaks, no badges, no engagement mechanics designed to bring you back. You return because something here was worth your time.
Start with what you want to do
Work here is filed by intent rather than by category, so you can begin with a verb instead of guessing which shelf something is on.
Every idea has a room.
A book leads to its creator, and the creator to the people already discussing the work. You can read any open community before you join it.
Before you start.
Can I buy something today?
Not yet. OpenTrib has not opened, so the catalogue you can browse is a preview and nothing is for sale. You can look around every part of the site, and join the waitlist if you would like to know when it opens.
Do I need an account to look around?
No. The marketplace, the communities and every creator's page can be read without signing in. An account is for the things that are yours — your library, the rooms you have joined, your own settings.
What can I read, and in what format?
Books, audiobooks, courses, templates, guides and notes. A single piece of work can exist in more than one format, and what you buy is what you keep.
OpenTrib starts with books and knowledge products. The longer plan covers the wider creator economy, but the reading is where it begins.
What is a community here?
A room built around a subject, hosted by the people who care about it. You can read any open community without joining, post once you have joined, and leave whenever you like.
Communities are attached to the work rather than kept separate from it, so a book you liked is one step from the people discussing it.
Is my reading private?
Your library is yours. What you choose to share in a community is shared because you attached it to a post, and nothing you buy is announced to a room on your behalf.
Can I read in my own language?
Interface language is something you set for yourself, and it is kept separate from the languages you want to see work in — the two are different questions and OpenTrib treats them that way.
Both live in your own settings, and neither changes what anyone else sees.
Find your next good read.
Explore the marketplace and see what catches your interest.
Browse the marketplaceIdeas bring people together.
People move the world.