New in v1.1: your shelf now follows you across devices

Reader

Your books, read aloud.

Drop an EPUB or PDF and a natural voice reads it to you, right in your browser. The voice lives on your device. Nothing you read leaves the machine.

Try the sample, no sign-up Open the reader

Free while in beta · works with the network off · 80 MB once, then it's yours · your files stay yours

Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 30%

For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer's men were coming.

What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her when, with a little squeak of the hinges, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air.

An illustration of the reader. The sentence being spoken is highlighted, and the word being said is picked out inside it.

Meet the voices.

Six of the twenty-eight, all free and all offline. No celebrity licensing, just good reading.

Any browser is the app.

Nothing to install and nothing to update. Drop an EPUB or PDF, press play, and the same shelf (books, places, voice) opens on the next machine you sign into.

Try the sample, no sign-up

Mrs Dalloway · Reader

Good evening

  • Mrs Dalloway 30% · picked up here an hour ago
  • The Psychology of Money 62% · picked up on the train
  • A field guide.pdf 8% · started on the other laptop
The same shelf on a second machine: every book, and how far each one is.

Three steps, then it's yours.

  1. Drop a book

    EPUB or PDF. No file handy? Start with the sample.

  2. Pick a voice

    The voice downloads once, 80 MB, then it reads with the network off.

  3. Press play

    The page follows the sentence being spoken, and your place follows you to any device.