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Drag .epub files here, or click “Add EPUB”.
Reading
Text
This book
Render this book with its own fonts, colours, sizes and background, exactly as its maker designed it. Turn it on for richly designed books such as diagrams or coloured text. While it is on, the Theme, Font and size settings above do not affect this book.
Read aloud
When off, tapping the page never starts audio, so highlighting stays put on a phone. Turn it on to read aloud, then tap where you want to start.
All marks
Settings
Appearance
Applies everywhere: the library and inside books.
Keep your library safe
Connect a folder and Backchat writes your books and notes into real files you own, then reads them back on any device that opens the same folder. The folder is the source of truth; the browser is only a cache in front of it.
No folder yet? The Save and Load buttons on the home screen keep a single backup file of everything, which you can restore from anytime.
Re-creates "How to talk back to your books", the built-in manual, with its sample marks.
Back up and restore
Files you can bring back. Use Save on the home screen for a full backup; Restore below reads any backup file: a full library, one book, a deleted book, or notes only.
Highlights, comments and progress only, no book files. With a folder connected it writes to a notes/ folder and keeps latest.json current; otherwise it downloads.
Pick any Backchat backup: a full library, one book, a deleted book, or a notes-only file. Merges by id, newest edit wins, nothing is ever deleted.
Export a readable copy
A readable snapshot of your reading as Markdown, one file per book, with your highlights, comments and the links between them. Made for your notes app, not for restoring.
Unzip it straight into an Obsidian vault. Connections become [[wikilinks]] so your books link to one another. A snapshot, not a restore point.
Maintenance
Optional housekeeping.
Lets you search inside book text. Runs once per book.
Compares the connected folder with this library: notes without a book file, book files not yet imported, hand-offs waiting to merge.
Danger zone
Irreversible. Make sure you have a backup first.
Erases every book, highlight, comment and reading position stored in this browser. Irreversible. Your connected folder and the files in it are not deleted; this browser is disconnected so the cleared data cannot sync back in.
Contents
Highlights & comments
Margins
Keyboard shortcuts
Tap the left or right edge of the page to turn pages. Select text to highlight, comment, copy a location, or copy a quote. Open the margins to write freely about the book.
Edit details
Summary is what the book is. Your own notes, takeaways and quotes now live in the in-book margins.
Comma separated. People, themes, concepts, any length. Each becomes a [[link]] in Obsidian.