Vocabulary, through reading
You probably don’t read enough.
Superb hands you something worth finishing, then keeps every word that trips you up. Tap it once — it comes back until it’s yours.
No account. No streak guilt. Your reading state stays on this device.
The case
The literacy crisis isn’t a vocabulary problem. It’s a reading problem.
614 books
Real books, carefully typeset — Austen to Du Bois — all out of copyright, all free.
Tap a word
Any word you don’t know gives up its meaning right on the page. Keep the good ones; they wait for you.
Three games
Rhyme, association, and prose composed for you. Type or say your answers, then see what you could have said.
Everything runs on your device. No account, no streaks, nothing leaves your browser. On a phone, install it from the browser menu and it reads offline.
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Inside the app
A quiet place to read, and a satisfying place to play.
Reading comes first
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”Dracula — Bram Stoker, chapter II
Your place is saved as you scroll. Ordinary reading records nothing beyond that and the words you choose to keep.
Find a book
Search all 614 by title or author, or browse by kind.
Your words
Every kept word waits with its meaning and the sentence it was met in.
Read aloud
An orb reads to you in your device’s own voice.
Take it offline
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Install it from the browser menu. A book once opened reads with no connection at all.
Nothing leaves this device
No account, no tracking, no analytics. Your shelf, your places, and your kept words live in your own browser’s storage — the only thing the app ever fetches is the book you asked for.
connect-src 'self' + the book library. That’s the whole policy.