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The long ones, finally.

Open a book and read it at one point of focus, paced like a careful reader: rare words get time, sentences land, and your place is always saved. A 90,000-word novel becomes a few evenings instead of a few months.

Open the readerWhat's inside
The EyeStill reader in Moby-Dick: one word at the centre with its red focus letter, over a soft illustrated landscape
The reader · Moby-Dick, one word at the centre, a scene illustration kept soft behind it
01 — Library

A shelf that remembers where you stopped.

Your books, your shelf
Upload EPUB, FB2 (zipped too), TXT or Markdown, or paste any text. Books without a cover get a clean typographic one.
Reading now, finished
A gallery of what you're reading and what you've finished. Open the site again and it resumes the last book where you stopped.
Free classics
An online library of public-domain books in English, Spanish, French, German and Russian — Austen, Shelley, Wilde, Twain, Tolstoy — ready to read in one click.
Kept in your browser
Books, covers and your exact position live in the browser's storage, not on our server. No account.
The EyeStill online library: public-domain classics in English as a gallery of covers
The library · public-domain classics, here in English
02 — Pacing

Fast where it can be, slow where it should be.

A fixed words-per-minute rate reads “the” and “phenomenology” in the same time. EyeStill sets a ceiling and lets the text set the rhythm under it.

Rare words get time
Each word is weighed by how common it is — for Russian with the Russian National Corpus frequency list — so a rare word stays a beat longer and “and” flies by.
Meaning groups
Optionally read two-three words at a time — a preposition with its noun, a short phrase — balanced around one red letter.
Sentences land
Commas breathe and sentence ends pause, scaled by how long the clause was; a change of scene gets a little extra room, and “he said” tags go by quickly.

Try it — space to pause, arrows for speed

Call
paused
450 wpm
1 / 58
58 words · 8s at 450 wpm · 15s at the average 238
03 — Staying with it

Speed is only useful if you are still reading.

Look away, it pauses
Optional webcam eye tracking, processed in the browser: when your gaze leaves the line, reading stops and steps back two words.
Quick checks
On pause, an occasional one-question quiz about what you just read — answer with 1, 2 or 3 — keeps speed honest.
Background for the scene
An optional illustration of the current scene behind the text, kept soft so the words stay readable.

The camera never leaves your device. The scene illustration is generated by Pollinations.ai from a short excerpt — it can be switched off, see the privacy policy.

04 — Keyboard

Hands on the keys, eyes on one point.

Space
start / pause
← →
word back / forward
Shift + ← →
sentence back / forward
↑ ↓
speed
[ ]
paragraph
⌘ K
search the book
F
full screen
Z
undo a jump

Start with the one you keep putting off.

Free, in the browser, no account. Your books stay with you.

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