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I · The app

Your books,read out loud.

Pick a book, press play, and listen in a voice you choose. Upload your own PDF and the app reads that too. And when a sentence doesn’t make sense, Hermes, the built-in AI guide, explains it in plain words.

Coming sooniOS & Android100+ audiobooks
II · Audiobooks

100+ audiobooks,
already recorded.

listen to the books we sell, or to your own PDFs, ready by morning

  • I.
    All our audiobooks100+ titles

    Every book we’ve recorded, chapter by chapter, in a voice you choose. Three are free to play today; the rest need a subscription, which isn’t for sale yet.

  • II.
    Your own PDFsovernight

    Upload anything you need to get through: a chapter, a report, a set of notes. It comes back as an audiobook, with each word highlighted as it’s spoken.

  • III.
    Your place is savedalways

    Stop halfway through a sentence on your phone, open the same book on your computer, and it carries on from exactly where you left off.

III · Printed books

Want it on paper?
We ship the book.

Order a printed copy from inside the app and we send it to your door. It is the same book you were listening to, on paper, so you can lend it to a friend. Pick any book to see its details.

Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky · Volume 1 of 9 · 1866 About this book

Crime and Punishment, 1866

The app, coming soon

The whole library,
in your pocket.

The Roman Reads app is coming to iOS and Android. Carry the whole library with you. Read or listen, in the original words or a simpler version, and ask Hermes, the built-in AI guide, about any line, chapter, or book.

Free appiOS & Android100+ audiobooks
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