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I’ve not been happy with the state of desktop ebook readers for a while, so I recently built a simple web-based ebook reader. It’s designed to be a quick and easy way to read books while also providing decent layout and typography.

Although it’s a website, books and reading histories are saved in the browser’s local storage and it doesn’t track anything.

Here’s the link: https://www.minimalreader.xyz



Hey, might I suggest adding a public domain example book? I tried adding a couple of different epubs that I happen to have on my phone, but it just says "Please select an EPUB file." when I do. (Using mobile Firefox.)


That's a good idea, thanks for the suggestion.

It seems to be quite picky about which books it accepts sometimes, will have to look into that :)


I am going to start using this. Thank you!


any plans to add pdf support?




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