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A reading library
of your own.

Save articles, PDFs, and images.
Read page by page, with highlights and notes.

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01 / ReadHighlights and notes

Read.
Make a note.

Keep the passages you want to return to, and add a thought of your own.

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In Praise of De-Apping

Thomas Lavin · Read the essay

Apps make things immensely seamless once you are where they want you to be. A regular website can’t reach you at all to tell you to come back if you’ve never logged in, and if you don’t have the app they can’t generate notifications on your device either. This is more capture than convenience, yet we treat this as a completely normal and acceptable trade-off.

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Read

Read page
by page.

Adjust the text size in the reader.

Highlight

Save a
passage.

Highlights stay attached to the source text.

EXAMPLE NOTE
“This is more capture than convenience”

Try the browser version of LinkedIn this week.

Notes are saved with the passage.
Interactive illustration · Example note
02 / Your librarySave and organize

Articles.
PDFs.
Images.

01

Save for yourself.

Keep articles, PDFs, images, highlights, and notes in a personal reading library.

02

Pages, at your pace.

Read page by page, with space to highlight a passage or add a thought of your own.

03

Find what you saved.

Use collections and search to organize and find items in your library.

03 / LayoutsiPhone, iPad, and Duo

One page.
Or two.

iPhone and iPad layouts adapt to the screen.
Duo shows two pages side by side.

Layout illustrations, not device screenshots.

Storage and export

Keep a copy.

Content and annotations are stored locally. Optional iCloud sync is a choice on each device, and a manual export lets you keep a portable copy.

Some images captured from the web can remain remote and may be unavailable offline. Optional iCloud sync is separate from keeping an exported copy.

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