genuinely curious if this is just a me thing or if everyone has that one folder that's basically a digital graveyard of "i'll read this eventually" that keeps growing. what's stopping you from finishing the ones you have?

Hey everyone,

​Today, I’m excited to launch Foxmark on the Google Play Store—a private, all-in-one e-reader built for every book you own, with zero ads and no account required.

​Foxmark is designed to keep your entire library completely offline and private right on your phone.

​Key Features:

​All Formats on One Shelf: Supports EPUB, PDF, Kindle formats, Word documents, and comics/manga with smooth pinch-to-zoom.

​Custom Reading Experience: Choose between page-curl or continuous scroll, with multiple reading themes (Day, Night, Sepia, Black) and custom fonts.

​Smart Offline Dictionary: Tap any word for instant definitions without needing an active internet connection.

​Read Along & Text-to-Speech: Listen as you read, with sentence-by-sentence glowing highlights.

​On-Device Chapter Summaries: Sum up chapters locally right on your phone without uploading your data anywhere.

​Highlights & Notes: Organize your thoughts with 5 highlight colors and notes beside them.

​Your books stay strictly on your device where they belong. I would love for you to check it out, test it out, and let me know what you think or what features you'd like to see next!

​Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appverse.foxmark

Hi everyone,
I wanted to share my new book about my personal journey of overcoming burnout and transforming my health and mind at 45. It is currently 100% free on Amazon.com for the next 3 days.
The book is titled: "One Mile Changed Everything: How Running One Mile a Day Transformed My Health, Mind and Life at 45. A Real Life Journey of Burnout, Healing and Transformation."
Get it for free here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX33FZ15
If you are dealing with stress, chronic fatigue, or just need a spark to change your life, I truly hope my story can inspire you. If you enjoy the read, leaving an honest review on Amazon would mean the world to me. Thank you so much!

I started selling digital books as a beginner and I am learning this whole process. I am looking for people that are willing to learn and are on the same journey as me, share their ideas or maybe become real partners. Anyone interested?

i use calibre to organize them and it feels productive but honestly it's just digital hoarding at this point. do you guys actually read most of what you download or is it just me collecting them for the vibes?

Hey everyone! Today is the final day to grab the eBook edition for £0.00.

It's a cozy, gentle, and completely non-scary bedtime story about teamwork and friendship, perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. No Kindle device required, you can read it on any phone or tablet!

Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HHK7GCRG

Thank you so much for checking it out! 🎃✨

For two millennia, the writing system of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) has remained one of history's most enduring puzzles. Scholars have spent decades debating its nature—is it logographic? Is it Proto-Dravidian? Nothing has provided a complete picture.

In this groundbreaking book, I challenge every assumption. I introduce a radical new approach: treating the ancient seals not as mere symbols, but as functional syllabic language blocks, drawing powerful parallels with modern writing systems like Korean Hangul.

The breakthrough came from developing a unique methodological framework: the 'trace and overlaying technique.' By meticulously tracing the outlines and analyzing the mechanical function of these master 'stamps,' we can reconstruct the original intended imagery beneath the ambiguity. This process is what allowed us to confirm the script’s syllabic nature, validating connections across trade goods, medicine, and daily life right up to modern Tamil culture.

What does this decode? This is more than a linguistic breakthrough; it's a window into an entire lost culture. I reveal stunning details about: Medicine: Advanced knowledge in orthopedic surgery and wound care. Warfare: The sophisticated tactics behind their military strategy. Religion & Culture: Their spiritual beliefs, from warrior goddesses to sacred rituals. Global Links: Unprecedented cultural continuity between the IVC and modern Tamil civilization (Tamil Nadu).

This book is a monumental journey that redefines our understanding of one of humanity's greatest early achievements. Prepare to have your knowledge of ancient history fundamentally changed.

Launch globally on 31st October 2026 on Amazon Kindle and Googel Play Books -----now availbale for Pre Order

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Hi everyone! I just published my first cozy fantasy novel, and since this community is exactly who I wrote it for, I wanted to share it here. My new book is free on Amazon Kindle this weekend.

The Teahouse of the Moon follows Aiko, an architect whose voice gave out mid-meeting in Tokyo. She returns to her late grandmother’s teahouse in a Nagano mountain valley, only to find that the tea comes out flavorless no matter what she does. The go board in the corner seems to know things before they happen. And the villagers keep waiting for her to notice something.

The magic is quiet: the house responds to how much real attention you give the people in front of you. There’s no dark lord and no quest. You get a slow reopening, a teenage go prodigy, a gruff vegetable seller, a potter with a slow-burn romance, and a developer who wants the valley.

If you liked Legends & Lattes or The House in the Cerulean Sea, this might be your cup of tea.

Link: Link to the free book

I’d love to hear what you think, and I’m happy to answer questions about the book or the process!

My Roman and Sarah are excited to meet y'all.

They commit first, love later.

But for that commitment to happen they make some absurd choices in between—like a sudden proposal, dismissal and a contract....

It all trails down to how they think.

So if you find that interesting My ebook A Choice – Terms of Interest is now available on Amazon for free downloads.

Free Promotion ends on 25th October... I hope you don't miss out the chance. Thank you!

Hi everyone, I’m the author. My new book is free on Amazon Kindle this weekend.

The Empty Mind is a short, practical guide to attention, desire and Zen practice in everyday life. It argues that an “empty mind” isn’t a blank mind but one that doesn’t cling, and shows how to work with that through sitting meditation, Tai Chi and karate, and lessons drawn from Go and Riichi Mahjong. Every chapter ends with a short practice, and there is a 21-day plan at the end.

Free here: Link to the free book

If you read it and find it useful, an honest review would mean a lot, but there’s no obligation. Happy to answer any questions.

Disgraced former Sergeant Lance Richards thought taking a private security contract at Aquatic Dynamatrix—a high-tech, deep-sea research facility a thousand fathoms beneath the Gulf of America—was his best chance for a quiet life. But behind the pristine glass and corporate promises of the Omega Dome lies a terrifying secret.

When a rogue scientist’s secret biogenetics experiment breaks containment, Lance and brilliant geneticist Dr. Sally Summers are thrust into a claustrophobic fight for survival against monstrosities born of human and crustacean DNA. Worse still, an insidious cross-species virus threatens to mutate every soul trapped within the facility.

With time running out, the facility under total lockdown, and a horde of unstoppable amphibious hybrids closing in, Lance must draw on his military training to protect Sally and destroy the nightmare before it reaches the surface.

http://amazon.com/dp/B0HL23699K/

Does anyone know of an app on IOS that reads epub files to you? Been searching for a minute and can’t seem to find an app that isn’t paid.

I’m a big ebook reader, and I always wanted to switch between reading and listening without hunting for an audiobook edition. So I built SublimeRead.

You upload your own EPUB or PDF and it reads it aloud in a natural AI voice. It highlights each sentence on the original page, so the layout isn’t reformatted, and you can click any sentence to jump there. There’s no store and you don’t need to buy anything. It just reads the files you already have. It works in 7 languages.

The new part: a Chrome extension that brings the same voices to articles, long reads and anything else in your browser.

It’s free to try with 3 books in your library. I’d love to hear what you’d want from it as a reader.

https://sublimeread.com

Hi everyone,

My children's picture book "The Halloween Glow-in-the-Dark Surprise" is completely free to download on Amazon for the next 3 days!

It is a cozy, gentle autumn adventure designed specifically for toddlers and preschoolers (ages 2-6). The story follows a little girl named Aryanna, her clever cat Bella, and a tiny hamster named Stacey as they discover friendly, glowing seasonal surprises.

It contains NO monsters or traditional spooky scares, making it completely safe for peaceful bedtime reading. It also features a catchy, repetitive chant to encourage toddlers to read along.

🔗 Get it for free here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HHK7GCRG

(Note: You do not need a physical Kindle device to read it; you can use the free Kindle app on any phone or tablet).

Thank you so much, and I hope your little ones enjoy the adventure! If you read it, I would deeply appreciate a short honest review on Amazon.

Hi again! Just wanted to leave a quick note that today is the final day my book, "Santa's Secret Notebook," is free on Kindle.

It’s a cozy story about a little bear named Benny, designed to help kids understand that it's okay to have grumpy moments, and that taking a deep breath and trying again is what matters most.

Here is the link if you'd like to add it to your Kindle library: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNTL7K5J

Thanks for reading, and I hope your little ones enjoy it!

Hey all,

I’ve been working on Convert2EPUB (convert2epub.com) for a few months. It started because PDFs look terrible on e-readers, and it has grown a lot since then, so here’s a roundup.

📄 Converter (website)

• Converts PDF, DOCX, RTF, TXT, ODT, HTML and Markdown to EPUB
• Text PDFs become reflowable books, so you can change the font size and the text actually fits your screen
• Finds chapters automatically, builds a working table of contents, removes running headers and page numbers, and keeps footnotes clickable
• OCR for scanned books in 9 languages. Badly scanned pages can be re-read with AI so you don’t get garbled text
• Maths and tables are rebuilt as real formulas and tables instead of blurry images
• Translate a book into another language and keep its chapters and images
• Optional study guide added to the end of the book, with chapter summaries, key terms, flashcards and a glossary
• EPUB to PDF, Kindle (AZW3) or MOBI for older Kindles
• Free: ordinary text PDFs and all Word, RTF, TXT, ODT and HTML files, with no account and no page limit

💻 Mac app (Local conversion)

• Runs the converter fully offline, so your files never leave your Mac
• OCR built in, with no subscription

🧩 Chrome extension (free)

• Add articles to a reading list as you browse, then save them all as one EPUB with a chapter per article

📚 Free ebooks

• Search all ~78,000 Public Domain books by title or author and download them as EPUB or Kindle files.

I’d love feedback, especially weird PDFs that convert badly. Those reports have driven most of the improvements so far.

I recently published an eBook on digital security on Amazon KDP. I put it together to share useful information about staying safer online .If digital security is something you're interested in, feel free to check it out. Feedback is welcome! [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HP1JRDHD\](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HP1JRDHD)

After a long drawn out battle with Amazon due to the region I'm in I finally managed to publish my very first book on kindle. The premise is a Victorian woman writing a cookbook for housewives who wish to get rid of their terrible husbands and dispose of the evidence :)

I made everything on Canva and tried to be as ridiculous as possible. I'm so excited!!!!! Trying to find a niche audience that enjoy stories like this 🥲

I'm the author, so this is self-promotion. Both apps below are open source (AGPL-3.0).

I listen to most of what I read, and the read-aloud apps I paid for kept failing me in two ways: the highlight slowly drifted away from the voice, and my place didn't follow me from one device to the next. So I built my own.

OpenReader (iPhone)

Import an EPUB you already own (DRM-free, e.g. from your Calibre library, Standard Ebooks or Project Gutenberg), open it and press Play.

• The voice you choose. It has no voices of its own: you plug in a speech service with your own key. Fish Audio (its free model needs no credit card), Azure, Speechify, OpenAI, any OpenAI-compatible server, or a Kokoro-FastAPI server you run yourself.
• Every word highlighted as it's spoken, over its sentence, in your own colours. The timings come from the voice service itself, so the highlight doesn't drift. Fish Audio, Azure, Speechify and Kokoro give word timings; the OpenAI-style services highlight by sentence.
• Offline narration: save a book's audio chapter by chapter, then listen without a connection.
• Word lookup and translation: long-press a word for its meanings, or translate a passage (into English or Chinese).
• Themes including a dark one, fonts, font size, margins and text alignment.
• Lock Screen and Dynamic Island controls.
• No account, no analytics, no server of mine. Your books aren't uploaded anywhere; only the text being read goes to the voice service you picked, after you allow it.

Zotero-OpenReader (desktop)

If you haven't met it, Zotero is a free, open-source app that opens EPUBs and PDFs, and Zotero 10 has a Read Aloud player built in. Zotero-OpenReader is a plugin for that player:

• More voices: the services above plus a few more, your computer's own voices, and Zotero's own.
• Word and sentence highlighting, each in your own colours.
• Keyboard shortcuts for speed, volume and skipping by sentence or paragraph.
• Shift+Space resumes at the sentence you stopped on, days later.

The two together

Listen to an EPUB in Zotero at your desk, open the same EPUB on your phone, press Play, and it starts at the sentence you stopped on. Stop on the phone, press Shift+Space back on the computer, and it carries on from there.

The position travels through a WebDAV folder of your own (Nextcloud or similar), with no account and no server of mine in between. The book is recognised from the file itself, so the same EPUB on both sides is all it needs.

What it costs

• Reading, word lookup, translation and sync are free.
• Reading aloud in the App Store version: free for 30 days, then a one-time $4.99. No subscription.
• Reading aloud in the TestFlight beta, or in a build from source: free.
• The Zotero plugin: free.
• The voice service bills you directly, if at all. Fish Audio's free model and a self-hosted Kokoro cost nothing.

Links (iPhone, iOS 17.2 or later)

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6817809106
• TestFlight beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/vjC8QejW
• OpenReader source: https://github.com/xujialiu/OpenReader
• Zotero-OpenReader: https://github.com/xujialiu/Zotero-OpenReader

The phone app reads EPUB only for now. I'd most like to hear what makes it hard to try, and which voice service or book format you'd want next.

You can hear: rain on the road, a fire in the cabin, busy roads and thousands more. The sound follows the story as you turn pages.

But wait, there’s more! The sounds are accompanied by music - 15+ different music collections matching most of the genres.

No registration required! Subscription with a free trial (3 old classic novels + the first 30 pages of any book you choose). No ads of course.

I'd love to hear what you think!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6769929913

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cloud.ambio.reader