Who writes?
We sign as the "Librarius Editorial Team": the same team that builds the app and the website. There are no guest authors and no articles bought from agencies. When an article draws on the experience of readers, book club organizers, or booksellers, we say so in the text and do not present it as our own opinion.
We write for readers who want to do something specific: start a book club, run a literary event, find a new home for books they have finished, or read more consistently. If a question has no useful answer for that person, we do not write about it.
How do we choose topics?
We start from real questions: what people search for, what they ask in forums and reading groups, and what Librarius users write to us about. Before writing, we read what is already published and look for the gap: what is missing, what is out of date, and what gets repeated without a source.
Each guide tries to cover the whole question: what it is, how to do it, how it compares with the alternatives, what goes wrong in practice, and what the data says.
How do we choose and cite sources?
We prefer primary sources: national reading surveys (such as Pew Research Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, or the National Literacy Trust), peer-reviewed studies, the official pages of the organizations involved, and reference editions of each book.
Every figure, date, or limit we publish links to its source in the article's "Sources" list. Direct quotes are checked against the original; if we cannot verify the exact wording, we do not publish it. When two sources cannot be compared because they measure different things, we explain that instead of putting them side by side.
How do we write about Librarius?
What we say about the app is checked against the product, not against promotional material: event types, club limits, and the countries where selling and swapping work come from the real configuration. If a feature does not exist yet, we do not promise it. In general guides, the Librarius part is a short section at the end: the article has to be useful even if you never use the app.
How do we write comparisons?
We compare Librarius with other tools people use for the same job, including free ones and tools that are not reading apps, such as WhatsApp or Facebook groups. Every claim about another service is checked on its website or app store listing, and the page shows the date of the last review. Every comparison includes a section on when the other option is the better fit.
What we never do
We do not publish figures without a source or studies we cannot link to. We do not accept payment from publishers, authors, or platforms to appear in a guide or to look better in a comparison. Collaborations with content creators are a separate program and, when they exist, they are labeled as such.
We do not give legal, medical, or tax advice as if it were our own. When a topic touches on those areas (permits for a public event, reading and wellbeing, copyright), we summarize what the official source says and note that rules vary by country.
Do we use AI?
Yes, as a working tool: to search and organize information and to prepare drafts. No fact is published without checking it against the source we link, and every text is reviewed before it goes live. The Editorial Team is responsible for everything we publish. AI does not sign articles or decide what goes into a guide.
How often do we review?
Every article shows its publication date and the date of its last content update. Guides with data are reviewed when a new edition of their source comes out; comparisons at least every three months, because services change. Fixing a typo does not change the date; changing a figure or a recommendation does. If a cited source goes offline or changes its content, we check the figure again before keeping the link.
How to request a correction
If you find a wrong figure, a broken source, or something that is no longer true, write to librarius1.app@gmail.com with the article link and, if you can, the correct source. We review every report. When a correction changes the meaning of what we published, we update the text and the date.