Reader's Books

A black-and-white e-book reader, text only, made for e-ink phones and for anyone who wants a page and nothing else. No icons, no colours, no wallpaper: white on black or black on white, serif, sans or mono, three text sizes. Part of the Reader's family of apps (Reader's Launcher, Notes, Tasks, Calendar…). The shelf is a list: title, how far you are, when you last opened it. Tap to read. The page is plain text, cut at whole lines, never through a line: the right half of the screen turns forward, the left half back, a long press opens the menu (chapters, larger or smaller text, book text in sans-serif or in a serif reading face, back to the shelf, remove). The reading position is remembered per book and survives a change of text size or screen. The screen stays on while a page is open. Formats: EPUB, MOBI (PalmDoc), FB2 and plain text. Pictures are shown in the page, scaled to the text width and never cut; a tap in the middle of one shows it on the whole screen, to zoom with two fingers. Styles and footnote links are dropped. A magazine issue (an EPUB with a section, a title and an author per article on its contents page) opens on its contents: sections, titles, authors and cover pictures; an article is a chapter. Open a book from the shelf, from a file manager ("open with"), or by sharing the file to the app. Books are copied into the app, so the original can move. A standard home-screen widget for any launcher shows the book being read; a tap carries on at the current page. Reader's Launcher shows the same on its book tile. Optional library: the e-books on your own drive (WebDAV: kDrive, Nextcloud…), listed by folder, a book downloaded when tapped or kept on the phone to read without a connection; highlights, comments and the page you are at travel with each book. The shelf says how much room the books take and can let go of those not opened for months. No account, no tracking; the network only for that library. English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian. Free software, MIT licence. Pierre Gallaz · developed with Claude Code

Compatible with Android 16: transparent system bars, and a library sync that stops cleanly when Android asks it to. Nothing else changes.