Frequently Asked Questions

You can use the book search on whefi.com by entering the author’s name, the book title, or the ISBN of the book, the platform will collect data from multiple data sources and display the search results to you. you can share the search result or visit the page of an individual search result to share it. On the home page, you can check the recommended lists of best sellers categorized into several genres.

Welcome to the whefi.com community, creating an account at whefi.com is super easy, find the signup/log-in button on the right top corner of any page on the platform, enter your name, password, and email address, and a confirmation email will be sent to you directly, then once you follow the link in that email your account will be active and ready to use.

Whefi.com will provide a preview button for certain books when applicable, when you click on that preview button a popup preview window will open and you will be able to find a partial or full preview of these books. Whefi.com will display a book preview whenever its data sources provide this type of data.

The Open Library is one of the data sources that whefi.com uses, the Open Library provides the ability to borrow eBooks online. At whefi.com you can find if a book is available for online borrowing at the Open Library and a link to the Open Library site where you can follow the online borrowing procedures. Please, note that this process is constrained by copyrights and the approval of publishers/authors and that the eBooks will vary in quality.

Currently, this feature is not available, in the future download links may be added for public domain books, otherwise, copyrighted books cannot be downloaded at whefi.com.

Yes, Whefi.com is free to use. You can use the platform to search, check the bestsellers lists, and register an account without neither any charges nor usage limits. The platform does not charge users or request any payments and signing up for an account does not require any financial information, in the future if any paid features are added, that will be announced on the platform's socials.

No, you don't have to sign up to use whefi.com, however, having an account will allow you to save search results and links to certain book review pages so you can visit them later, currently, user profiles are all private and still under developing, therefore, more features will be added in the future to user profiles.

Whefi is a word that consists of two syllables, Whe-Fi where the first syllable "whe" represents the question, search and quest for knowledge while the second syllable "Fi" represents the finding of knowledge and wisdom. This name aims to reflect the message of this platform which is to ease the search for information online, a character was created to represent the platform and its message and was given the same name, whefi is a character that is inspired by the ancient Egyptian methodology and it is a reflection of the multicultural nature of the world.

Whefi.com is free to use and ad-free, the project is self-funded by its founder and the money that the platform earns. the platform generates its revenue through affiliate marketing programs, currently, whefi.com is part of 2 affiliate programs, which are Amazon Associates and eBay Partner Network. When an affiliate link is displayed, a disclosure will be shown below it to indicate that these links are affiliate links. Users are not charged any extra costs when clicking on these links.

Yes, whefi.com is a reliable source of information. The data that the platform displays to the users come from trusted data sources, so the search results and other information that are displayed to the users are trustworthy and reliable sources of knowledge.

No, So far the platform is still under evaluation and development, if the business model behind this project proved to be viable from financial and technical perspectives then whefi.com can be turned into an established business.

Whefi.com is a personal project that is owned by its founder Ahmed Mohamed Gaber, who is currently managing the project and owns it.

Yes, whefi.com is 100% legal. the platform uses legitimate data sources that are compliant with copyright laws, the book previews that the platform provides, and the links for online book borrowing are all from sources like Google Books and Open Library and do not violate any laws.

Yes, whefi.com is entirely legal, secure, and safe to use. the platform is doing its best effort to ensure cyber security measures are followed, whefi.com uses HTTPS protocol to encrypt the connection between its servers and your device, and the platform also uses reCAPTCHA to secure its user interface. You can check our reports at Mcafee Webadvisor, , and Norton Safeweb. You can also check our privacy policy for information regarding cookies and data collection.

Several software, cloud, and analytics technologies are used to build the platform, the main software technologies that are used to build whefi.com are Meteor JS, React JS, reCAPTCHA, and MongoDB, while the main cloud solutions that are used come from AWS services, Atlas cloud, IBM cloud, and Cloudflare. As for 3rd party analytics tools, Google analytics, and Microsoft Clarity are used.

Several data sources are used to deliver search results on Whefi.com. The book search results use Open Library, Google Books, and New York Times Best Sellers lists as data sources.