Zenòdot

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Zenòdot is a free, independent platform for discovering book translations across the world's languages. Search any book and find out if it has been translated into your language — or any other.

It correlates more than 50 bibliographic sources — national libraries and union catalogues (the Library of Congress, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Japan's National Diet Library, and dozens more, from Belgium to Argentina), Wikidata, ISBNdb, and UNESCO's Index Translationum — to answer a question no single source answers well: has this book been translated?

As of July 2026 its correlated corpus holds over 61.9 million editions in 638 languages, resolved across more than 70 million author name variants so a writer can be found however their name is transliterated. Across more than 54 million distinct ISBNs, 73% appear in only one source — every database holds something unique, and none holds the whole picture. That gap is exactly what cross-referencing closes.

Why it exists

There is no global catalogue of translations. UNESCO's Index Translationum, the closest attempt, has not been meaningfully updated since the late 2000s. For smaller languages, a translation that sits in no database is functionally invisible — a form of cultural erasure. Zenòdot exists to reduce that invisibility.

Press

Featured on The Europeans podcast (May 2026), in the LSE Impact Blog (London School of Economics, April 2026), Publishers Lunch (Michael Cader, "Small Digital Delights", March 2026), Jane Friedman (March 2026), and Hacker News (Show HN).

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