Libratory Reader · iPhone and iPad

Read a book in two languages.

The original and its translation, on one screen. Each one has its own voice. Tap a word to see what it means in the other language.

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9:41
4 · Chapter IVAA
English

German

0:00−0:49

One book. Two languages.

Read the original and the translation together. Try it: tap a word on either side.

9:41
4 · Chapter IVAA
English

German

0:00−0:24

Made on your computer

Translate a book in the desktop app and give the translation its own voice. Save both in one synced EPUB.

Your place, in both

Save words, find them again, and search both languages at once.

On older iPhones, too

On iOS 15 and 16, two-language books open in a simpler two-pane reader.

Want to try one? The public shelf in Reader has two-language editions to download: Frankenstein in English and Bulgarian, Alice in English and French, A Christmas Carol in English and Spanish, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in English and Italian. Each is narrated in both languages.

English read by Kokoro, a free voice in Libratory. German by Cartesia, a cloud voice you can add with your own key.

Read and listen together

Watch each word light up as it is read. Double-tap a sentence to hear it again.

9:41
FRANKENSTEIN173
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. It breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?

His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.

173

Chapter IVAA
0:00−0:42

Your book, on your phone

Make a book on your computer. Bring it with you.

  1. 1. Make your audiobook

    In the desktop app, save a synced EPUB. It holds the book, the audio, and the word highlights in one file.

  2. 2. Send it to your iPhone

    Scan the code on the app's Phone page and Reader lists your finished books over Tailscale or the same Wi-Fi. Or use AirDrop or the Files app.

  3. 3. Read and listen

    Press play. Your book works offline and remembers your place.

Read. Listen. Or both.

Bring your own ebooks and audiobooks, too.

Read and listen

Open a synced EPUB from Libratory. Follow the highlights or double-tap a sentence to hear it.

Just read

Bring an EPUB ebook you already own. Change the text size and save your favourite lines.

Just listen

Open an M4B audiobook. Pick a chapter, change the speed, or listen with the screen locked.

9:41
4 · THE WHITE SNAKEAa

A long time ago there lived a king whose wisdom was praised throughout the land. Nothing remained hidden from him, and it seemed as if news of the most secret things was carried to him through the air.

He had, however, one strange custom. Every day at dinner, after the table had been cleared and no one else was present, a trusted servant had to bring him one more dish. It was covered, and even the servant did not know what was in it, for the king never took off the cover until he was quite alone. One day the servant was overcome with such curiosity that he carried the dish into his room.

Chapter 4 of 62 · 38% through

Ebook. Read at your own text size. Your chapter and place are saved.

14:06
NOW PLAYING
Shelley 1888 Frankenstein
INTRODUCTION.Chapter 2 of 32 · 12 min
3:55−8:19heard 7% of this chapter3 gaps, 5 min
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Audiobook. Pick a chapter and press play. The bar shows what you have heard and what you skipped.

Three ways to view your book

Books made with Libratory offer all three. Ordinary ebooks use Text.

Column

Make the printed words fill your screen.

Page

See the whole page, including pictures and tables.

Text

Choose a text size that feels right for you.

Pick up where you left off

Reader remembers your place and shows which parts you have heard.

See what you skipped

Skipped parts stay marked, so you can come back to them.

Save a word or a quote

Select it, save it, and put it in a group you name.

Find it again

Search the book and your saved words. Jump back to read or listen.

A poor goose boy went walking along the bank of a large, turbulent river while looking after a flock of white geese. On the bank there was a stone, and on the stone a ring; and the boy, having nothing better to do, put it on. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. It breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
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Unknown words · 24Quotes · 6
luxuriances…but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes.5 · Chapter IV · 12:41 · p. 173
dun-white…almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set.5 · Chapter IV · 13:02 · p. 173
turbulent…along the bank of a large, turbulent river while looking after a flock of white geese.2 · The Goose Boy · 4:18 · p. 41

Free on iPhone

Your first book is already there.

Reader comes with a short sample book. Open it and press play.

No computer with Libratory on it? The public shelf lists with nothing to set up. It holds public-domain classics narrated with Libratory, read along word by word: Frankenstein, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Time Machine, The Call of the Wild, The War of the Worlds, and six tales by Poe.

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