Open it and read
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Read
Independent writers publish from a manuscript. Readers get a book that talks back.
Listen along in the app today. Soon, ask mid-chapter, keep what mattered, and organize knowledge with AI.
Coming soon to iOS, Android and the web
Open it and read
No PDF downloads. No leaving the app. No losing your page.
Pick Paper, Ink, or Sepia and set the type size to your eyes — Read remembers where you stopped.
The Quiet Season
Mai Lâm
Chapter 1 · The road out
The bus left before dawn, and for the first hour nobody spoke. Outside, the rice fields were still holding last night’s rain.
She had packed one bag. At the time it seemed like enough.
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▶ListenEN · VI · 1.0×
01Word manuscript → book on the shelf
02AI drafts category & blurb
03Listen, ask, and keep what you read
For readers
Finish the book in the app — then keep what it taught you.
No ads between chapters, no handoff to a PDF viewer. Just the book, your place in it, and tools that make the reading stick.
A page that suits you
Paper, Ink, and Sepia backgrounds, adjustable type size, and a serif made for long stretches. The table of contents is always one tap away.
Never lose your place
Read saves your position and how far through you are. Close the app mid-sentence and come back to that sentence.
Chapters sized for one sitting
Manuscripts are split into readable stretches — short, standard, or long, depending on the book.
Listen
Narration, for when your eyes need a break.
Read speaks books in natural voices synthesized by Google Cloud — a choice of voices, speeds from 0.8× to 1.2×, and a page that scrolls itself so you can follow the words while you listen.
Launch audio is optimized for English and Vietnamese — more languages to follow.
Male & female voices0.8× – 1.2×Auto-scroll with the narrationDialogue-aware
For writers
From a Word draft to a book on the shelf.
Drop in a .docx. Read finds your chapter markers, lets you set free or paid, and runs one content review with clear notes if something needs fixing.
Upload your manuscript
Drag a .docx into Read. Add a title, description, and category — pick free or paid and set your price.
Read prepares the book
Read finds the “Chapter” and “Part” markers and cuts the manuscript into reading stretches. Choose short, standard, or long, preview it, then adjust.
Send it for review
One content review. If something needs changing you get a specific note and can resubmit — no guessing why it isn’t on the shelf yet.
It goes on the shelf
Your book appears in the Read library, readable on the web and on mobile. Chapter 1 becomes the free preview automatically.
Read accepts .docx manuscripts. Authors who join early get a say in how revenue sharing works.
In the works
AI for shelf-ready books — and for pages that answer back.
On the author side, AI drafts the category and blurb and flags structure issues before review. On the reader side, you can ask a chapter, look up a term in context, map ideas after each stretch, and see marked passages return on a spaced schedule.
For readers — ask, map, remember
Ask the chapter
Stuck on a passage? Ask right there while you read. Answers come from the book you have open, and stay inside the chapters you’re allowed to read.
Explain and define in place
Select a word, a concept, a name. Get a short answer in context instead of leaving the app to look it up.
Map ideas after each chapter
At the end of a stretch, Read helps you sketch the main ideas and link them to earlier chapters — so your library becomes a network, not a pile of finished titles.
Spaced return to marked ideas
Passages you mark come back on a spaced schedule, so they settle instead of fading three months later.
For authors — packaging without the busywork
Category and blurb drafts
AI reads the manuscript and proposes a category plus a draft description for the shelf. You always write the final line.
Structure check before review
AI flags missing chapter markers and uneven splits so you fix packaging before you submit — without rewriting your voice.
These AI features are in development. Early sign-ups get them first.
Why Read
Made for writers who publish their own work. Tuned for how people actually read.
A simple path from Word to shelf, and a reader with preview, listen-along, and AI tools that keep the book useful after page one.
A real preview
All of Chapter 1 — not ten pages cut off mid-sentence.
Same book, web and mobile
Read on a laptop at work, carry on from your phone on the way home.
Manuscript in. Book out.
Authors send .docx. Read handles chapter splits, the shelf listing, and the Chapter 1 preview.
Review with a clear note
If a book isn’t ready for the shelf yet, you get the reason and a specific note on what to fix.
Read it or hear it
Move between reading and listening to the same book without losing your place.
Made by a small studio
Read is built by Antun AI — small enough to hear a suggestion and act on it.
Questions
Straight answers.
Can I download Read yet?+
Not quite. Read is coming to the web, iOS, and Android. Save a spot and we’ll tell you the moment it opens.
How should I format my manuscript?+
A single .docx with clear chapter markers. Read handles the rest. EPUB is on the roadmap.
What does an author earn?+
Revenue sharing is something we want to design with our first group of authors. Get in touch and we’ll be straight with you about where it stands.
Can my book be copied?+
Books are read inside the app and never exported as files. Deeper protection is on the roadmap.
Are the AI features available?+
Not yet. Author tools (category, blurb, structure checks) and reader tools (ask the chapter, in-place definitions, idea maps, spaced review) are in development — early sign-ups get them first.
Want in early?
Tell us whether you come to read or to publish a manuscript — we’ll bring you in with the right group as Read opens.