Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language
I'm a multilingual reader (Catalan/Spanish/English/Italian), and I kept hitting the same wall: I'd hear about a book and have no way to know if it existed in my language. Turns out this is a genuinely unsolved problem. There's no single database that tracks which books have been translated into which languages. ISBN registries are fragmented by country. Open Library has great English coverage but gaps elsewhere. Wikidata has surprisingly rich translation data but it's locked behind SPARQL. Google Books is inconsistent across regions. So I built Zenòdot to cross all four and…
Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language launched on March 9, 2026 with 15 votes, #977 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Zenòdot helps multilingual readers discover whether books have been translated into their language. It searches across fragmented databases including ISBN registries, Open Library, Wikidata, and Google Books to provide translation availability information that no single source offers. The tool addresses a gap in book discovery for readers across multiple languages who want to know if titles they hear about exist in their preferred language.
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From the sources
Zenòdot is the largest actively maintained open catalogue of book translations in the world. Find out if a book exists in your language — and in how many more.
Find out if a book exists in your language and in how many more. For older or rare editions, searching by ISBN gives better results. Zenòdot is an independent cultural project created by Ausiàs Tsel . New on the blog: how many languages has a book been translated into? Zenòdot is the largest open catalogue of book translations, built from more than 50 sources. One search here does what our guide teaches you to do byfrom zenodot.app
In the maker’s words, at launch
I'm a multilingual reader (Catalan/Spanish/English/Italian), and I kept hitting the same wall: I'd hear about a book and have no way to know if it existed in my language. Turns out this is a genuinely unsolved problem. There's no single database that tracks which books have been translated into which…
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