Return to the story without reading ahead.
Reading Companion helps you return to a book after a break. Review a recap or look up a character, using only what you have read. Available with optional Lifetime Membership on supported books in the Android app and web reader.
Remember where you left off
An Episode Recap restores the narrative thread before you continue. It covers completed Episodes, so you can revisit what happened without searching for a whole-book summary that might reveal the ending.
The book stays complete and unabridged. Recaps are optional material alongside the original text.
Keep track of characters as you read
The Character Tracker brings together names, aliases, relationships, and character notes established through your last completed Episode. A name you have only just encountered is explained using what the book has revealed so far.
It is useful when returning after a break or following a novel with a large cast. Notes from later Episodes are not substituted for your current point in the story.
How the Episode cutoff works
- Choose a book with Reading Companion available and finish its first Episode.
- Open the recap or Character Tracker from your reading plan or Reader.
- Check the completed-Episode cutoff shown in the Companion. Material becomes available as you finish more Episodes.
Opening a later Episode does not make it a completed Episode. Companion material follows completed reading.
See a real example through Episode 1
The optional examples below show the opening Episode of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. They reveal events and characters introduced in Episode 1. Leave them closed if you want to begin the book without those details.
Show Episode 1 recap and character examples
Example character entry: Dr. James Sheppard is identified as the village doctor and narrator, also known as James. The guide describes only what has been established through Episode 1.
What is free, and what needs Membership?
Complete catalog books are free to read on the daily schedule, with no ads and no account needed to start. Reading Companion is included with optional Lifetime Membership on supported books, after your first completed Episode. Membership also lets you continue immediately to the next Episode.
Membership is a single purchase made in the Android app through Google Play. Sign in to the same Kramena Account to use it in your browser. If you do not have access to an Android device, new Membership purchases are not currently available. Google Play shows your local price before purchase.
Personal Book imports are separate purchases. Membership does not include an import purchase.
Which books have Reading Companion?
Availability is shown on each book's page. Only books explicitly marked as having Reading Companion in the published catalog appear in the selection below. Check the book before you start; Companion is not available for every title.
Explore books with Reading Companion
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The Odyssey
Homer's epic follows Odysseus as he struggles to return home after the Trojan War. Across strange islands and dangerous seas, the poem explores ingenuity, loyalty, hospitality, and the desire to return home.
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Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect. As his family adjusts to the impossible change, Kafka explores work, obligation, isolation, and what happens when a person can no longer fulfill the role expected of him.
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Pride and Prejudice
Published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has inspired many stage and screen adaptations. It follows five unmarried sisters whose lives change when a wealthy eligible bachelor moves into their neighborhood.
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Frankenstein
An ambitious young scientist discovers a way to bring life to something he has assembled. Told through a series of nested accounts, Mary Shelley's novel examines creation, responsibility, loneliness, and the obligations that bind a maker to what he makes.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A curious girl named Alice follows a White Rabbit into a world where size, language, time, and logic refuse to behave normally. Lewis Carroll fills her journey with riddles, arguments, strange creatures, and playful challenges to the rules of the adult world.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a family legend surrounding a great hound and a death on the lonely Devon moors. The case brings rational inquiry into a landscape charged with fear, inheritance, secrecy, and the possibility of something supernatural.
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