A press for the new reading
Books built to last.
A craft house for the new reading: translations evolved line by line by a council, classics reimagined, original works, and living books that answer back. Read them here, hear them spoken, carry them anywhere.
Each previous Odyssey was the work of one sensibility. This one is the work of a council — the sensibility of none of them, and all of them.
On the new translation
The press, in your pocket
Your shelf, inside Telegram.
The press’s books are served in Telegram by Pocket — read, listen, and chat with your books where you already talk, and carry the shelf between every device you own. Free to start, accessible by design.
Ownership
Two ways to carry a book
The EPUB
The file itself, yours to keep on every device you own. Kindle, Kobo, the shelf you already trust. Reading online stays free; owning the download keeps the press alive.
The Living Book
The EPUB and the PDF. The whole book narrated, chapter by chapter. A chat that answers against the text. The MDX bundle for your own tools, and a direct line to the book for your agents. One purchase, every form the book can take.
The Seventy-One
A translation that arrives with its own scorecard.
A translating agent drafts a line. An independent panel of judges grades it on five named axes. What clears the bar is promoted; what does not is sent back. The line that reaches the page has been measured, refused, revised, and measured again — not because one author was satisfied, but because a council agreed it had arrived.
The heaviest weight. A translation faithful but charmless has still failed to translate a poem.
Beauty built on drift is beauty built on sand.
The founding text — free
Free & Safe
The revised Consilience white paper — the vision the press was born from. Intelligence built the way a hydroelectric generator supplies a small town: sovereign, local, made to outlast its designer. Free to read, everywhere, for everyone.
The founding vision
Knowledge belongs to everyone.
The press publishes under CC-BY-SA where the rights allow — free to read, free to teach, free to adapt, and free to carry into the languages that still lack an English Odyssey of their own. Born from five decades of print and digital experience, developed by one of the foremost electronic-book and reading-system specialists in the world. And restless by design: a Consilience book keeps growing after publication. The one you buy today is the smallest it will ever be.