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Txt Library

Your own bookshelf for TXT novels, to read and to listen

Novels, notes, logs — add any .txt file and it lands on your shelf as a book. Pick up at the very sentence where you stopped, or rest your eyes and listen. It also keeps track of how much you read and the lines you loved.

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The bookshelf on the first screen, with today's reading time at the top, a shelf of recent reads, and folder shelves.
Your books on a shelf
Read Aloud in progress. The sentence being read is highlighted, with a sleep timer and speed controls at the bottom.
Read Aloud follows each sentence
The reading log, showing today's reading time and goal, pages this week, the streak, and a bar for each day.
See how much you read today

What makes it comfortable

My Library

Like books on a shelf

Files sit on the shelves as books with their covers showing, and a folder takes a whole shelf. Your recent reads sit on the top shelf, and when you finish a book the app offers the next one. Choose from three shelf themes: Night Study, Oak Study, and Green Library.

Reading Log

How much did you read today?

See today's reading time against your daily goal, pages this week, your reading streak, and books finished. Records stay on your device.

Quotes

Keep the lines you love

Save a sentence as a quote or a bookmark and add a short note. Reading Notes collects them all, and a tap takes you right back to the spot.

Resume

Pick up where you left off

Go to the Home Screen or force quit the app — when you open it again, it returns to the exact spot in the file you were reading.

Read Aloud

Listen from the sentence on screen

Tap the speaker button and the app reads aloud from the sentence you're looking at. The sentence is highlighted and the screen follows along. Set the speed from 0.5× to 2.0× and choose a voice. A sleep timer stops it after 5 to 90 minutes, and on iPhone reading continues with the screen locked.

Auto-Scroll

Press and hold for 1 second

Lift your finger to stop, or turn on Keep Auto-Scrolling to continue hands-free. Choose from 20 speeds, and shake your phone to stop.

Encoding

No garbled text

Beyond UTF-8, older EUC-KR (CP949) and Shift-JIS files are detected automatically. Even files several megabytes long scroll smoothly.

Search

Jump to the sentence you want

Every match in the text is highlighted, and the up and down buttons move between them.

Reading Settings

A screen that suits you

Adjust font size, line spacing, and margins, and choose from three fonts and Light, Sepia, Gray, or Dark themes.

Organizing

Tidy, like the Files app

Create folders, sort by name, date, or size, select several items to move or delete, and press and hold to reorder.

Language

한국어 · English · 日本語

Change the language in Settings and the app switches right away. The User Guide is replaced with the file for that language too.

On iPad and an open iPhone Duo, it reads like a book

On a wide screen the text is laid out in pages; on an unfolded iPhone Duo the hinge becomes the spine. Swipe or tap an edge to turn a page like paper, or press and hold to turn pages automatically at the interval you choose. With Read Aloud on, pages turn to follow the sentence being read.

A novel shown as a two-page spread on an unfolded iPhone Duo

Fold it and you're back to scrolling, right where you were. You can also choose scroll or book mode yourself in Settings.

Adding files

  1. Import buttonTap the import button at the top right of the file list and choose files from Downloads, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, and more.
  2. Share from another appShare a .txt file you received in Messages or Mail and choose “Txt Library” (“Text Viewer” on Android).
  3. Files appOn iPhone, put files in the “On My iPhone › Txt Library” folder. On Android, open “Text Viewer” in the side menu of the Files app and put files there. They appear in your list.
  4. Connect to a computerOn iPhone, select your iPhone in Finder on a Mac and drag files onto Txt Library in the Files tab. On Android, copy files to the phone's Download folder, then bring them in with the import button.
  5. Books includedOn first launch you'll find the User Guide and two public-domain classics (The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol), ready to read.