Open and read EPUB files in your browser. Navigate chapters, adjust the reading view and return to your saved place.
A quiet moment can turn a page into a place to think.
One paragraph. A slower breath. A thought you might have hurried past.
You don’t have to finish everything today. There is something good about simply beginning.
LeafRead lets you open an EPUB file in your browser and keep it in your personal library. Use the same reader for the book, the articles it leads you to and the notes you want to keep. You can begin on a desktop and continue with the same account on a smaller screen.
For a text-heavy book, a reflowable EPUB gives the words room to adapt. Increasing the font size changes the layout of the reading instead of making a fixed page larger. This is useful for novels, essays and other books where following the text matters more than preserving a printed page design.
Sign in, choose Add text and upload a reflowable EPUB without DRM, up to 20 MB. Once the book is in your library, open it and check its title, opening text and chapter list. You can return to the book from the library rather than uploading the file for every reading session.
If your download is a license or receipt instead of an EPUB file, check the publisher’s download options. LeafRead does not unlock protected ebooks. Fixed-layout EPUBs, often used for illustrated pages that must keep their exact arrangement, are also outside the supported import format.
Choose a typeface and text size, then adjust spacing and column width until a paragraph feels comfortable to follow. On a large display, a narrower reading column can reduce the distance your eyes travel between lines. On a phone, start with a size that does not make you repeatedly zoom.
Switch between light, warm, dark and high-contrast themes. You can use focus mode to reduce surrounding controls or try the reading ruler as a guide through the text. The goal is a page you can stay with for the next chapter, with settings you can change whenever your surroundings change.
Use the table of contents to move to a chapter, and search within the book when you remember a phrase or name. Save a bookmark for a section you expect to revisit. Your current sentence position is remembered separately, so a reference bookmark does not have to become the place you resume reading.
Reflowable books change their layout with font size and screen width. A sentence-based place is useful when moving between devices because it refers to the text you were reading. If two devices have different saved positions, you decide which one to continue from.
Highlight a sentence when you want to keep the author’s wording. Add a personal note for your response, a question or a connection to an earlier chapter. Later, search your highlights and notes and open the saved passage in its original reading context.
You can also use text to speech to listen to your imported book. Select a sentence, choose an available voice and start playback. The sentence highlight follows the audio. Listening gives you another way through the same book, while pauses and notes let you return to the words that deserve more attention.
Yes. Use LeafRead in your desktop browser to upload and read a supported EPUB. You do not need a separate desktop EPUB application for this workflow. Sign in to keep the book, notes and saved place associated with your account.
Yes. Use the mobile web reader or import the book in the LeafRead iOS app. The app can open documents from Files or the share sheet and lets you download reading text and prepare audio for offline use.
A reflowable EPUB is designed for text that adjusts to the screen. A PDF normally preserves a page layout, and LeafRead extracts its text for the reading view. For either format, choose a supported file and keep the original when its visual arrangement matters.
LeafRead needs an actual supported EPUB file without DRM. It cannot remove protection or import a book merely from a store link. Check whether the publisher or provider supplies a compatible file you are permitted to use.
An article, a book or a document. Keep it in your library.
