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Guides for story-library timing, classroom drills, certificate prep, and Project Gutenberg novel chapters.

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Type 26 public-domain story collections

26 collections in the Story library—Aesop fables, fairy tales, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen tales, Greek and Norse myths, American folktales, Roman and Celtic myths, Japanese folktales, classic essays, and fifteen Gutenberg novels (Treasure Island, Alice, Looking-Glass, Oz, Peter Pan, Sherlock, Anne, Secret Garden, Call of the Wild, Wind in the Willows, Tom Sawyer, Frankenstein, Huck Finn, Little Women, and Pride and Prejudice)—with short passages and chapter-by-chapter Gutenberg novels.

  1. Step 1

    Pick a collection

    Aesop fables, fairy tales, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen tales, Greek and Norse myths, American folktales, Roman and Celtic myths, Japanese folktales, classic essays, and fifteen Gutenberg novels (Treasure Island, Alice, Looking-Glass, Oz, Peter Pan, Sherlock, Anne, Secret Garden, Call of the Wild, Wind in the Willows, Tom Sawyer, Frankenstein, Huck Finn, Little Women, and Pride and Prejudice)—short shelves or Gutenberg novel chapters.

  2. Step 2

    Choose a passage

    Select a title, chapter part, or shuffle random story text for the timer.

  3. Step 3

    Run a timed block

    One, three, or five minutes on the passage you are reading.

  4. Step 4

    Keep reading

    After each run, Previous and Next on the result screen move you through the collection with the same timer and URL parameters.

Type Aesop · Tortoise and Hare

No download. Public-domain passages for school drills, Grimm and Andersen fairy tales, Greek and Norse mythology units, and Project Gutenberg novel chapters.

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Story typing · Session templates

Five-Minute Anne of Green Gables Typing Sessions: Endurance Without Fatigue

Run five-minute Anne of Green Gables typing sessions on Type Faster—graduate from three-minute fable drills to Gutenberg novel chunks with shareable library URLs and one logged error pattern per session.

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Story typing · The Secret Garden

Typing The Secret Garden by Chapter: Story Library Book Mode Step by Step

Navigate The Secret Garden chapter typing—pick chapters 1–27, select parts within each chapter, reuse shareable URL parameters, and track chunk completion with the chapter-two embed.

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Story typing · Session templates

Five-Minute The Secret Garden Typing Sessions: Endurance Without Fatigue

Run five-minute The Secret Garden typing sessions on Type Faster—graduate from three-minute fable drills to Gutenberg novel chunks with shareable library URLs and one logged error pattern per session.

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Story typing · The Call of the Wild

Typing The Call of the Wild by Chapter: Story Library Book Mode Step by Step

Navigate The Call of the Wild chapter typing—pick chapters 1–7, select parts within each chapter, reuse shareable URL parameters, and track chunk completion with the chapter-two embed.

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Story typing · Session templates

Five-Minute The Call of the Wild Typing Sessions: Endurance Without Fatigue

Run five-minute The Call of the Wild typing sessions on Type Faster—graduate from three-minute fable drills to Gutenberg novel chunks with shareable library URLs and one logged error pattern per session.

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Story typing · The Wind in the Willows

Typing The Wind in the Willows by Chapter: Story Library Book Mode Step by Step

Navigate The Wind in the Willows chapter typing—pick chapters 1–12, select parts within each chapter, reuse shareable URL parameters, and track chunk completion with the chapter-two embed.

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