A reader for your PDFs, and the articles you mean to get to

Your PDFs, bound like real books.

Pages that bend as they turn, a glass for the footnotes, and a quiet record of every minute you read — kept in this browser, with no account and nothing uploaded.

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1:1: pixels at any zoom
0: accounts to make

F focusM the glass→ turn

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Drag the page to turn · Drag the glass across it

No account
Nothing uploaded
Opens where you left off
Sharp at any zoom

What it does

Reading on a screen, with the good parts of paper put back.

Pages that bend

Grab the paper and drag. The leaf curves along its length the way a real sheet does, throws its shadow on the page beneath, and falls back if you change your mind halfway.

A glass on the desk

Pick up the magnifier, put it over a footnote or a figure, and leave it there. A turning page nudges it aside.

Sharp at any zoom

The page you are reading is drawn from the PDF at your screen's own resolution, and drawn again when you zoom in — never a stretched picture.

Everything else off

Focus mode takes the browser away, then the toolbar fades after a few still seconds. One key in, one key out.

Yours, in the literal sense

Books live in this browser's own storage, on your disk. Delete a book and its file and its history go with it.

The record

Time that was really spent.

The clock only runs while the tab is in front of you and you have touched something lately — leave it open overnight and it records nothing. What comes back is your pace, your streak, and an honest guess at what is left.

Minutes read this weekExample

Streak: 12 days
Pace: 31 pages/hr
This week: 3 h 40 min
Left in book: ≈ 6 h

How it goes

From file to first page in a few seconds.

1
Add a PDF or a link
Drop a PDF on the library, or paste a link to an article and it is typeset into a book. Files are read in this tab and never sent anywhere.
2
Open it
A two-page spread on a desk, one page at a time on a phone, at the page you last stopped on.
3
Read
Drag the paper to turn it, the glass to get closer, and press F when you want everything else gone.
4
Come back
Your page, your minutes and your pace were written down as you went. Nothing to save, nothing to sync.

For the keyboard

Hands stay on the keys.

Everything the toolbar does has a key, so the toolbar can fade away and stay gone.

Turn the page: ←→
Next page (⇧ for back): Space
First and last page: HomeEnd
Zoom in and out: +−
Back to 100%: 0
Pick up the glass: M
Focus mode: F
Your reading record: I
Your other books: B
Light or dark: D

Start with one book.

Drop a PDF on the library and open it. The progress, the sessions and the estimate of what is left all follow from reading it.

Open your library

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