Awhile Read
At gate and courtyard—no murmur of the World’s dust: In the empty rooms—leisure and deep stillness.*
A shelf of books, a reading lamp, a little time of your own. Make the shelf yours, choose a font and paper tone, and settle into a few pages. Supports EPUB, CHM and MHT.
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Your shelf, pages and reading notes
- A wooden shelf, with a lamp
- Arrange plants, artwork and animated ornaments. Add your own photos, Live Photos or silent videos, and switch on the reading lamp.
- Fonts, paper and text direction
- Import fonts and set body, heading and code faces separately. Adjust spacing and margins, with horizontal or vertical text in supported Chinese and Japanese books.
- Search, highlights & notes
- Search across chapters, highlight passages and add notes. Return to any marked passage.
- A shared iCloud library
- The next release syncs books, reading positions, bookmarks, notes, fonts and shelf decor across compatible iPhone, iPad and Mac editions using the same iCloud account.
- Share excerpts. Return from a widget.
- Export passages and notes as postcards or book-page cards, with an appearance preview. Bookshelf and Notes widgets open a book or take you back to a highlighted passage.
- Wi-Fi transfer & offline reading
- Manage EPUB, CHM and MHT files in one library. Transfer books over local Wi-Fi and read offline.