SCREAD BOOKS
Classic literature, one sentence at a time

Read a book
the way you scroll.

One sentence. One swipe. The thumb you already scroll with, pointed at Three Men in a Boat — and the whole library free to read, start to finish. No sample chapters, no paywall halfway down a page.

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The SCREAD Books home screen, showing Continue Reading with Frankenstein and a Most Popular shelf of cover art.
Browsing the catalogue: cover art for Frankenstein, Partners in Crime, Pride and Prejudice and Short Fiction.

A book, in the shape of a feed.

A page of dense type asks you to settle in. A single sentence asks almost nothing — and one sentence at a time is how a book gets finished on a phone.

Swipe to read

One sentence fills the screen. Swipe up for the next. The motion is the one your thumb already knows, pointed at Mary Shelley instead of a timeline.

Keep the lines that land

Like a sentence, note it, or share it. The scrubber along the bottom jumps you anywhere in the book and always says which chapter you're in.

Pick up anywhere

Your place is saved to the sentence, on every device you sign in on. Close the app mid-paragraph and it opens exactly there.

The whole library, free.

Every book is free to read start to finish with an account — not a sample, not the first three chapters. Thousands of classics, each one with real cover art rather than a grey placeholder.

  • Browse and read the entire catalogue
  • Build a shelf of your own
  • Join collections and read the discussion
The Explore tab, a grid of book covers with titles and authors.

Read it hands-free.

Let the scroller move for you. Autoscroll paces itself to each sentence, tap-to-turn puts the next line under your thumb, and Read Aloud speaks the book while you keep your eyes somewhere else.

  • Autoscroll, tap-to-turn and Read Aloud
  • Your own text size and typeface
  • Bring your own books — ePub, PDF, or scan a paper page
A single sentence from Frankenstein filling the reader, with like, comment, collection and share controls down the right edge.

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