Slowread: read unhurried

Read unhurried.

Slowread: enjoy reading masterpieces of world literature right out of the box. What’s more, Slowread opens the books on your phone in most popular formats. And a gallery of paintings you don’t just look at — you read them.

MASTERPIECES OF WORLD LITERATURE — THE HERITAGE OF ALL HUMANKIND

Slowread’s shelves hold acknowledged masterpieces of fiction — books read and reprinted around the world for generations. They are the heritage of all humankind, open to everyone, and libraries such as Project Gutenberg and Wikisource share them freely. New releases and bestsellers you add yourself — Slowread opens EPUB, FB2, MOBI, PDF and more.

The English shelf includes The Odyssey, Treasure Island, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Leaves of Grass. Tap one and it’s in your library.

FIND A BOOK

Below the shelves, search all of Project Gutenberg in English — over 33,000 works. Look up an author or a title, or browse the alphabet as you would walk along library shelves. Before you download, a card tells you what the book is and who wrote it.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Every day, a new thought from a great writer — on books, words and life. Word for word from the edition, with the author and the translator named.

FORMATS THAT ACTUALLY WORK

Reads EPUB, FB2, MOBI, DOCX, PDF, DjVu (scans with a text layer), TXT, MD and ZIP archives of them. Which format to download: EPUB is best (recommended), then FB2. They hold live text that adapts to your font, size and color, and contents, cover, images and footnotes work as intended. A PDF is ready-made pages: less comfortable to read on a phone, and text recognized from a scan can contain errors.

Illustrations from epub and fb2 stay in the text, where the author placed them.

Open a book from your downloads, a messenger or a browser — it lands right in your library.

A LIBRARY THAT LOOKS LIKE A LIBRARY

Real title, author and cover — from the book itself, not a list of filenames. The table of contents in epub and fb2 comes from the book’s own structure, even when chapters have names, not numbers.

GESTURES INSTEAD OF MENUS

- Swipe sideways — change the font
- Pinch — text size
- Touch the middle and drag — your own color, not ready-made presets
- Touch the edge of a paragraph — bookmark
- Padlock at the top — locks the look, so a stray touch can’t change it

Mark the places that matter and leave notes at the paragraph — all in one panel.

YOUR OWN FONT

Swipe past the last font and a tile appears: pick a font on Google Fonts, download it, open the file in Slowread — and your book is set in it. Or stay with the font your phone already uses: it is in the row too.

A TYPO IN THE BOOK? FIX IT

Long-press by a paragraph and correct the text — your edits stay on top of the book, the original file is untouched. Save a corrected copy as EPUB or FB2 whenever you like.

MASTERPIECES — WHAT TO NOTICE

From ancient Egyptian painting and Song landscapes through the Renaissance and the Dutch Golden Age to Rembrandt, Hokusai, Van Gogh and Roerich. Not a feed of pretty pictures — a path through time.

Each work has a story written for you: where to look, the world it came from, and why it matters. Open it fullscreen and zoom into a brushstroke, a gesture, a barely visible sign. Gallery images load from the internet.

UNHURRIED

No reading-speed counters, no pressure. Your books stay on your phone and are never sent anywhere; only reading positions can travel to your own Google Drive, and only if you switch that on. After you add them, reading works offline.

Read unhurried.