Explore the demo
The public demo is the fastest way to see what reading in Aldus actually feels like — no server to install, no account to create.
Get in
Section titled “Get in”- Open the demo site.
- Select Explore demo. Aldus creates a fresh guest account behind the scenes — a random username, a private library membership, nothing you type in.
- You land in the library. From here it behaves like any Aldus install: Home and Discover show the shelf, and opening a title offers Read or Listen.
If you’d rather sign in with an existing account on the same server instead of exploring as a guest, select Sign in from the same screen.
What’s in the library
Section titled “What’s in the library”The demo is stocked with complete public-domain classics — Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Moby-Dick, and others — with real ebook and audiobook editions, not samples. At least one title has a full read↔listen alignment, so it’s a good place to try exact synchronization firsthand: start reading, then switch to listening, and land on the same sentence.
What expires
Section titled “What expires”A guest visit is temporary by design:
- Your reading and listening progress, and anything you add to a collection, are private to that visit.
- The visit expires 24 hours after it’s created. Expired guest records and their personal activity are removed during automated cleanup, which may happen after access expires rather than at the exact 24-hour mark.
- There’s no email or password attached to a guest account. The demo still processes a random guest identifier, activity, progress, and operational request logs while the visit exists.
- Operational request logs used to run, troubleshoot, and protect the demo follow the retention described in the privacy policy.
Because guest account data is temporary, don’t use the public demo as a place to keep anything you care about, and don’t upload personal media to it — it’s a shared, developer-operated instance for trying Aldus, not a free library host.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”Demo access is rate-limited so the shared instance stays usable for everyone trying it — if the demo is busy, Aldus will ask you to try again shortly rather than fail silently.