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title: 'When to Move to Helios Open Reader'
url: 'https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/growing-your-guide/when-to-move-to-helios-open-reader'
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date: '2026-10-05'
description: 'The two projects differ in what the site is for: Open Publishing Space is a site built around a blog and one or more guides – even long ones, grouped into parts. It is free and open source. Helios Open Reader is a site built for reading, such as open textbooks and course readers. It runs on Helios…'
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Section 4

# When to Move to Helios Open Reader

The two projects differ in what the site is for:

- **Open Publishing Space** is a site built around a blog and one or more guides – even long ones, grouped into parts. It is free and open source.
- **[Helios Open Reader](https://github.com/hibbitts-design/grav-skeleton-helios-open-reader)** is a site built for reading, such as open textbooks and course readers. It runs on Helios, a premium Grav theme.

If your site becomes mainly about reading, Helios Open Reader adds:

- **A table of contents on every page**, highlighting where you are as you read
- **Several publications on one site**, each with its own home page, gathered on a readers list
- **A plain-text version of each publication**, for ebook tools, search and other uses

This guide uses the same page settings as Helios Open Reader (subtitle, authors, edition, last updated date, license, section labels, learning objectives and section card details), and the same shortcodes and callouts, so your content can move across with little rework.

This work by [Your Name](#) is licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

- Open Education
- [What is Open Education?](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/what-is-open-education)
- [Tools for Open Course Design](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/tools-for-open-course-design)
- [Getting Started with Open Authoring](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/getting-started-with-open-authoring)
- Publishing with This Site
- [Growing Your Guide](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/growing-your-guide)
- [Blogging Alongside Your Guide](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/growing-your-guide/blogging-alongside-your-guide)
- [When to Move to Helios Open Reader](https://demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-open-publishing-quark2/open-education-essentials/growing-your-guide/when-to-move-to-helios-open-reader)

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