how the house works
- A work
- is a book, published in volumes, each finished before the next is begun. Principia is one.
- A volume
- is what you read and what you own. Bought once, it is yours to read without limit, on every device you read from.
- An edition
- is a volume in one language: English, Spanish or German. Each is owned on its own, and two can be read side by side, aligned passage to passage.
- A preview
- opens the first pages of a priced volume to anyone. The offer waits at the end of them, not before.
- A withheld volume
- exists and is not yet open to read. It stands on the spine so that the decision is seen, not guessed at.
- A thread
- is an objection, an idea or a note left on a passage, written and read by the volume's readers. An objection that holds enters the work.
- Every volume is signed and timestamped
- when it is published. What it said, and the date it carried, can be checked by anyone afterwards, without asking the house.
The name is the standard. The shelf is narrow, and lengthens only by what can be shown.
Corollaria is kept by Tensional Labs.