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Open-source ebook reader for EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, CBZ, TXT and Markdown with deep customization for fonts, themes, layout and e-ink screens. New: sentence-by-sentence TTS with A-B repeat, dialogue highlighting, custom translation providers, global annotations, home screen widgets, and e-ink full refresh.
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About this app
Readest is a modern, open-source ebook reader for people who read a lot, and want their books, notes and progress to follow them everywhere.
Open EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, CBZ, TXT and Markdown, and tune the reading experience down to the last detail.
Read your way • Paginated or scrolling modes with smooth page-turn animations • Custom fonts, themes, spacing, margins and columns • Vertical text for CJK books • Built for e-ink, with contrast tuned for slow-refresh screens • Open up to four books side by side for research and comparison
Your whole library • Browse and download from OPDS catalogs and public libraries • Connect to Calibre and Calibre-Web, covers and metadata included • Organize with custom bookshelf groups • Full-text search inside a book
Notes that last • Highlights, bookmarks and structured notes • Copy a highlight together with a deep link back to the passage • Export your annotations
Listen and understand • Text-to-speech with downloadable offline voices and Android Auto support • Translate a sentence, a page, or an entire book • Wikipedia and dictionary lookup without leaving the page
Sync everywhere • Readest Cloud, or bring your own: Google Drive, OneDrive, WebDAV, S3 • KOReader sync keeps your progress in step with your e-reader • Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux and the web
Readest is open source. Questions or ideas: support@readest.com Privacy policy: https://readest.com/privacy-policy
What's new
Text-to-Speech: You can now listen sentence by sentence and loop a passage with A-B repeat, control playback from your desktop's Now Playing controls •Reading: Added dialogue highlighting for quoted speech, a Column Gap setting for two-page spreads •Sync: Added a Readest plugin for CrossPoint e-readers for reading progress sync •Sync: You can now sync reading progress to Pagebound, sign in to Hardcover more easily, and note edits are no longer overwritten by older synced copies •PDF: PDFs now blend smoothly with your reading theme with smart image inversion, show page thumbnails in the table of contents •Translation: You can now add your own translation providers with a reusable prompt library, look up words with an AI context dictionary •Annotations: A global note now appears on every occurrence of its text, exports can include the sentence around each highlight • Android: Added home screen widgets for your current book and bookshelf, automatic e-ink full refresh every few page turns
About this version
- Version
- 0.12.12 (12012)
- Size
- 54.36 MB
- Requires Android
- 8.0
- Target SDK
- 26
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 42
- Updated
- Oct 5, 2026
- Package
- com.bilingify.readest
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