paperhurts

a personal reading companion

Your fics. Your library. Your rules.
Import from anywhere, read it your way,
and keep every word in a library that's yours alone.

ao3 · spacebattles · ffn · sufficient velocity · & more

The reading experience
Seven themes, or build your own — sepia, AMOLED night, solarized, and a custom color builder
Read aloud, screen off — narration with lock-screen controls and a sleep timer
Your fonts, your place — typography you control, position that follows you everywhere
Reads offline — installs like an app, works without signal
Yours, entirely
Invite-only, run for friends — a small private server where your library is yours alone, never shared
Bring your own books — EPUBs, PDFs, comics & manga, Word and Markdown files, right beside your fics
Your own writing, too
Hear it before you post it — write a chapter, hear it read aloud, fix it, then post it. Your ear catches the missing word and the sentence that runs on: the things your eye skips because it knows what you meant
A chapter at a time — in the iPhone app, share a chapter file from wherever you write it. A short header at the top says which story and which chapter, and it goes into that story as that chapter
Fix it and send it again — share the revised file, choose Replace, and the new version takes the old one's place. Mark what to fix with highlights and notes while you listen
Markdown, plain text or Word — the iPhone app's share sheet takes Markdown and text files. In any browser, the upload buttons take those and Word files, Google Docs exports included
Still private — your drafts sit in your library only, like everything else in it