Language through Literature

Terms

1. What you are buying

A subscription — monthly or annual — to Language through Literature: access to the full library of fifteen works with their vocabulary, grammar material and translations, the review scheduling that goes with them, and the syncing of your reading record between your devices.

You are paying for the service — your record kept and returned at the right moment, the library as it grows — and not for a download.

2. The contract

A contract is concluded when your payment is confirmed by Paddle. Paddle is the merchant of record and therefore the contracting seller; it issues the invoice and handles the consumption tax.

3. Renewal, and ending it

A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time, without notice and without giving a reason. Access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for, and is not cut off early or refunded pro rata.

Cancelling is separate from withdrawal — see Right of withdrawal.

4. Your record stays yours

If your subscription lapses, your reading record is not deleted and not held hostage. You can export it in full at any time, subscribed or not. What lapses is access to the paid texts and their vocabulary, nothing else. The Chekhov room stays open.

5. If you paid once, before this was a subscription

You keep the library, permanently. A one-time purchase does not expire and is unaffected by any later change to how the service is sold.

6. What is whose

The fifteen literary texts are in the public domain and belong to nobody. Everything built around them — the vocabulary and grammar material, the translations and commentary, the software, the typographic system and the design — is the operator's and is licensed to you for your own personal use.

You may read, study and quote from it as you like. You may not redistribute the compiled work, resell access, or use the material to train a model.

7. Availability

This is a small service and it is honest about that: it is offered as it stands, with no promised uptime. If it is unavailable for a meaningful stretch of a period you paid for, write and we will put it right.

The offline edition is deliberately independent — it keeps working with no server, no account and no network, permanently.

8. Liability

Liability is unlimited for injury to life, body or health, for intent and gross negligence, and wherever mandatory law does not permit it to be limited. Otherwise liability is limited to foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract. Nothing here limits your statutory rights as a consumer.

9. Changes to these terms

If these terms change, subscribers are told by email before the change takes effect, and may cancel. Silence is not agreement.

10. Law and jurisdiction

The law of Austria applies, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer protection of the country you live in — that protection you keep regardless of what this clause says.

Last updated August 2026.