Web reader and app
Open a book in the browser, set a bookmark, close the tab. On the phone, the Android app picks up at the same page, even offline. When two devices disagree, you choose.
Les Misérables · Victor Hugo
In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—. He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D— since 1806.
Table of contents, previous and next chapter, font, size, line spacing, width and theme; these display settings stay in your browser. Your position is saved with your account and tied to the file you read: switching version never applies another file’s position. If another session saved a newer position, the reader tells you instead of overwriting it. The displayed content is sanitized: no script from the EPUB runs.
Add a bookmark marks where you are; select a passage then Note this passage attaches a note of up to 4,000 characters. No other member, owner included, sees them. Each annotation stays tied to the version it was set on; those from another version show separately. 1,000 bookmarks and notes per book and per account. The mobile app shares them, the My data export includes them.
Reading sync
Your phone, the web reader and your KOReader devices share one position format. When only one device has moved on, everything follows without asking. When two devices were read separately, the app shows you both positions and lets you pick.
| Who moved on? | What happens |
|---|---|
| Another device | The phone jumps to the new position. |
| This phone | Its position is sent to your account. |
| Both | You choose: the server's position, yours, or later. |
The exact position is only exchanged for a file identical to the one in your account. A book matched only by its title shares the percentage. Neither the phone's clock nor the "furthest percentage" decides for you.
Mobile app
An e-reader for your phone, built to work with your library. Read offline, download your books from library-manager.com and land on the right page on every device.
Android, installed directly. Not on Google Play yet, and no iOS version is distributed.
Inside the app
Your library and reading work without a connection. A Library Manager account is optional: it adds your online books and syncing.
Installation
Get the APK file from this page, on your phone.
Android asks you to allow installs from your browser or file manager. You can withdraw that permission afterwards.
Open the downloaded file and confirm. Updates install the same way.
In the settings, link the app to your library-manager.com account if you want your online books and syncing.
This is the published fingerprint for library-reader-0.6.5-production.apk. Compare it with the one your computer calculates:
5a8c038834b485b78d3875d260d51bad76a6882659f0e6bbc0e0cfdec59da1e5 sha256sum library-reader-0.6.5-production.apkPrivacy
Your books, notes and reading position are stored on the phone. Reading needs no connection.
The network is only used by the features you use: definitions (the word goes to Wiktionary), translation (the selected text goes to the translation service), and your account and kosync when you are signed in.
Sign-in tokens are kept in the system keychain and never appear in logs.
A cloud book is copied, checked, then read from the local file; it is never read remotely.
FAQ
Not yet. The app is only distributed for Android, as an APK file. On iPhone, the library-manager.com web reader still works in the browser.
No. The app reads the books on your phone without an account. Signing in adds your online books, uploads and reading sync.
No, it is free and open source. The library-manager.com account has its own plans, including a free plan for 100 books.
Download the new APK from this page and install it over the old one: your books and settings are kept.
On GitHub, under the GPL-3.0 license. Each release also publishes the exact sources of the compiled APK.
Install the app, then link it to your library whenever you want your books and your page everywhere.