Bovary
The reader
for people who
hate e-readers.
At last, a screen that respects the book.
In beta soon for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Leave your email for the first invite.
Reading on a screen has always felt like a compromise. Text poured into a box, stripped of the care a printed page was given.
Each page is composed like fine print, not poured into a box.
Bovary sets every page the way a fine press would — attending to rhythm, measure, and the space between words.
Nine editions. Choose a character, not a setting.
Not a slider labeled "font size." Nine considered editions, each with its own voice — pick the one that suits the book in your hands.
A library, not a download folder.
Shelves that remember what you're reading, a Librarian that knows what's nearest in spirit, and covers that look like books — not filenames in a list.
Marginalia, the way you'd mark a real book.
Highlight, underline, and write in the margin — every mark harmonized with the page, never pasted over it.
Visualize a book like never before.
See characters, places, concepts, moods, and ideas as they rise and fall across the chapters — the shape of a whole book on one screen.
Pages worth sharing.
Composed, typeset cards — not screenshots. Share a passage that looks as considered as the book it came from.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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Free up to ten books. Own it once when you're ready. No subscription, ever.
I'm a novelist. I built the reader I couldn't buy.
I failed at ebooks for years. I loved the books and hated reading them — the type dumped into a box, the streaks, the feed, the little badges congratulating me for turning pages.
So I built a typesetting pipeline for my own novels, the kind fine presses use. Then one evening I pointed it at an EPUB instead of a manuscript, and for the first time a screen looked like a book.
I removed the streaks. I removed the feed. I removed the badges. What was left is Bovary — a quiet place to read, that treats every book as the designed object it is.
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