The library

Your books, opened as books.

EPUB, PDF, Word — the books already on your computer. Each one gets boards, a spine and a place on the shelf.

Moby-Dick by Herman MelvillePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenFrankenstein by Mary ShelleyAlice in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollDracula by Bram StokerSherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Volume I of VII, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.

I

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

A whaling voyage that turns into one man's pursuit of the whale that maimed him.

Sea narrative · 188,210 downloads on Project Gutenberg

Read it free
pl. i — seven of the 78,000, bound for the shelf. Pick one; it opens below.

The book

It opens like a book.

Two boards, a sewn block, a hinge. The cover lifts, the leaves cross the gutter, and the spread settles under the lamp.

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, closed
Moby-Dick
7 / 348

Open · page 7

pl. ii — Moby-Dick, 1851. Opened once, and left at page 7.

The read

Read along.

A voice reads the page and the words light one at a time. Stop mid-sentence; it waits on the word you left.

Voices
Built in, or one cloned from a minute of your own speech.
Sync
Word by word, timed by the narration bundle itself.
Offline
Rendered once and cached, so a train tunnel changes nothing.
Pride and Prejudice · Chapter I7

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Paused0:01 / 0:08

The reader

What it does with a book.

Pass the EPUB

Chapters are found, the type is set, and the shelf takes the volume while it is still loading.

.epub.pdf.docx.cbz

Keep your place

Close it anywhere. It reopens on the word you left, on whichever device you pick up.

Read aloud, in sync

The highlight walks the sentence with the voice, in the 3D book and the flat view alike.

3D-fold the book

Every leaf is real geometry. It bends as it turns and riffles when you skim.

Mark and search

Highlight a line, pin a note, drop a bookmark. Search the book and land on the page.

The workflow

Drop. It binds. Read.

  1. Drop the file

    EPUB, PDF, Word or CBZ, straight onto the shelf. Nothing leaves your computer.

    about a second
  2. It becomes a book

    Chapters found, type set, boards and a spine put on it while you watch.

    opens as it loads
  3. Read

    It reopens where you stopped. Progress, highlights and notes travel with you.

    every device

The log

The log keeps itself.

Every page you turn is counted. Days you read build a streak. Pages earn rank up the Roman ladder, Tiro to Consul. None of it needs an account until you want it on a second device.

42,910pages turned
17books opened
28day streak
61hours listened
CenturioTribunus at 50,000

One reader's log. Yours starts empty and is kept on your own device.

In order of last opened

The Brothers KaramazovDostoevsky62%today
The OdysseyHomer34%Tuesday
The WavesWoolf11%Monday
Moby-DickMelville100%August
Pride and PrejudiceAusten100%July
DraculaStoker100%June

+ 11 more on the shelf

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