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Open Book Reader
A private reader view that turns pages like a real book
Open Book Reader turns any cluttered article into a two-page spread you flip with the arrow keys: a real page turn, paper and dark themes, and your place saved. Image-heavy pages become a clean gallery with ZIP download. Free, open source, collects nothing.
I read a lot of long articles in the browser, and it rarely feels like reading. There's a sidebar, a cookie banner, a newsletter popup, and a scrollbar that never tells you how far you've come.
Books solved this a long time ago with two facing pages, so Open Book Reader does that to any web page:
- Click the icon (or press Alt+B) and the article becomes a two-page spread. Flip with the arrow keys, with a soft paper-curl page turn. - It remembers where you stopped and picks up there next time. - Paper, light and dark themes, 2 to 4 columns on wide screens, and print or save the clean article as a PDF. - Image-heavy pages (webtoons, manga, photo threads) become a gallery instead: a masonry wall or an in-order layout, a lightbox, and download-all as a ZIP.
New this week: share the article you just read with a friend, click a picture to see it bigger, and save the article as Markdown (beta).
The part I care about most: it collects nothing. No account, no analytics, no server. The article never leaves your browser, and the whole extension is open source (MIT) so you can check that yourself.
It's free and comes in 12 languages.
I'd love to hear where it breaks. Pulling the article out of a web page is never perfect, so if a site comes out wrong, the Report button in the reader opens a short form and I'll fix that site. And tell me what would make you reach for it every day.
About Open Book Reader on Product Hunt
“A private reader view that turns pages like a real book”
Open Book Reader was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #407 on the daily leaderboard. Open Book Reader turns any cluttered article into a two-page spread you flip with the arrow keys: a real page turn, paper and dark themes, and your place saved. Image-heavy pages become a clean gallery with ZIP download. Free, open source, collects nothing.
On the analytics side, Open Book Reader competes within Chrome Extensions, Productivity, Open Source and GitHub — topics that collectively have 826.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Open Book Reader performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Open Book Reader?
Open Book Reader was hunted by Kou Xing. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Kou Xing
Hi Product Hunt! I made Open Book Reader.
I read a lot of long articles in the browser, and it rarely feels like reading. There's a sidebar, a cookie banner, a newsletter popup, and a scrollbar that never tells you how far you've come.
Books solved this a long time ago with two facing pages, so Open Book Reader does that to any web page:
- Click the icon (or press Alt+B) and the article becomes a two-page spread. Flip with the arrow keys, with a soft paper-curl page turn.
- It remembers where you stopped and picks up there next time.
- Paper, light and dark themes, 2 to 4 columns on wide screens, and print or save the clean article as a PDF.
- Image-heavy pages (webtoons, manga, photo threads) become a gallery instead: a masonry wall or an in-order layout, a lightbox, and download-all as a ZIP.
New this week: share the article you just read with a friend, click a picture to see it bigger, and save the article as Markdown (beta).
The part I care about most: it collects nothing. No account, no analytics, no server. The article never leaves your browser, and the whole extension is open source (MIT) so you can check that yourself.
It's free and comes in 12 languages.
I'd love to hear where it breaks. Pulling the article out of a web page is never perfect, so if a site comes out wrong, the Report button in the reader opens a short form and I'll fix that site. And tell me what would make you reach for it every day.