Homepage
All texts ever published in the magazine are featured on the homepage, starting from the latest.
The available translations are listed in the title section.
When a new translation is published, the text comes back on top in the new language.
Texts
Once you access a text, choose a translation from the white box on the right side of the page.
Click on the title for full view or read the translation alongside the original, as a special scrolling feature keeps them aligned.
Each text can be closed at any moment via the grey toolbox.
Texts can be exported in PDF format by clicking Export at the bottom of the page.
Dossiers
A Dossier is a special focus on specific topics, areas, writers, and more. It is made up of multiple texts, each translated into various languages.
Specimen Types 
Specimen Types is a blog-like space for the editorial board and all the writers involved in the magazine.
Updates
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My Specimen 
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Save
To save a text, click Add on its title bar, or Add to My Specimen at the bottom of the page. To access your saved contents, click the user icon on the menu bar.
Toolbox
– Bookmark: click Add Bookmark, then select the paragraph you want to bookmark.
– Highlighter: (coming soon)
– Notes: (coming soon)
My Settings
You can adjust your font size, change the background texture, pick your highlighter’s color, and more. To access My Settings hover over the user icon, then select My Settings.
Filters 
Contents can be filtered by writers, languages, topics, and dossiers.
Open Search 
Type in any word and the search tool will automatically list the results by writers, texts, dossiers, and topics.
Elena Botchorichvili, born in Georgia, studied journalism and English in Tbilisi. She worked in the Soviet Union as a journalist and emigrated in 1992 to Canada. She is the author of eight books, translated into various languages, among them: The Butterfly Drawer (1999), Opera (2002), and Faïna (2007). She was awarded the Russian Prize in 2015.
