The Catalogue
Chosen by editors, not algorithms
A rotating shelf of journals, essays and serialised novels, commissioned and sequenced by human hands for slow, consecutive reading.
Issue Nº 01 — Digital Edition
Great writing deserves a quieter screen.
Folio is a premium reading subscription built for e-paper — daily editions, essays and serialised novels set in crisp monochrome, delivered without glow, noise or advertising.
- 01Daily edition, six mornings a week
- 150+Serialised works in the archive
- 00Ads, trackers or glowing pixels
Features
A reading room, not a feed
Every part of Folio is engineered to disappear behind the writing.
The Rendering
Typeset for ink, not glow
Every issue is paginated for your exact display — six typefaces, fourteen e-reader models, and a dither engine tuned to keep halftones quiet and text sharp.
The Offline Issue
Yours, with or without signal
Editions sync in seconds and stay on the device. No streaming, no phoning home, and no pixel moves until you turn the page.
How It Works
Three movements, one habit
From standing order to finished issue in under a minute.
01
Place a standing order
Choose a plan below. Your first edition is prepared the moment your subscription clears.
02
Sync your reader
Pair Folio with Kindle, Kobo, reMarkable or Boox. We deliver EPUB typeset for your panel — no apps, no stores.
03
Read without residue
Six mornings a week, a finished issue waits on your device. No threads, no counters, nothing asking to be reopened.
Correspondence
Notes from the reading room
Unedited letters from subscribers, reprinted with permission.
“Folio is the first digital subscription that respects the pace of a sentence. My e-reader finally feels like a printing press rather than a billboard.”
“The Saturday edition has replaced three apps and two newsletters. It arrives, it ends, and it never asks anything of me again.”
Pricing
Standing orders
Every plan includes the daily edition. Cancel any time; the archive you paid for is yours to export.
The Pass
$9/month
- Daily edition, six days a week
- Saturday long read
- Serialisation archive
- Multiple reader devices
Billed monthly. VAT included.
The Standing
$18/month
- Everything in The Pass
- Full serialisation archive
- Print-style weekend edition
- Shared reader devices
Yearly billing includes two months free.
The Household
$29/month
- Everything in The Standing
- Five reader devices
- Shared marginalia
- Print edition by post
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
Questions
Frequently asked
Which devices does Folio support?
Folio delivers standards-compliant EPUB to Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Boox and reMarkable. Each issue is re-typeset for your panel size and margins rather than stretched to fit, so the page you see is the page we approved.
Can I read entirely offline?
Yes. Editions download in full over any connection and stay on the device — nothing streams, nothing refreshes, nothing is withdrawn mid-issue. Aeroplanes, basements and cabins behave exactly like your desk.
How do billing and cancellation work?
Plans are billed monthly or annually, VAT included, and can be cancelled in two clicks from your account — no calls, no retention offers. Access runs to the end of the paid term, and your archive exports as EPUB whenever you wish.
Standing Orders Open
Begin your standing order.
The next edition is typeset tonight. Subscribe and it will be waiting on your reader by morning.