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Roman ReadsLiterature made simple
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I · The app

Your favourite books,read out loud.

Pick a book, press play, and listen in a voice you choose. Upload your own PDF and the app reads that too. And when a sentence does not make sense, the AI explains it in plain words.

On Google PlayiPhone coming soonAudiobooks and PDFs
II · Audiobooks

Our audiobooks,
ready to play.

listen to the books we sell, or to your own PDFs

  • I.
    All our audiobooksevery title

    Every book we’ve recorded, chapter by chapter, in a voice you choose. Three are free to play today; the rest need a subscription, $19.99 a month.

  • II.
    Your own PDFsright away

    Upload anything you need to get through: a chapter, a report, a set of notes. Press play and the app reads it out loud, with each word highlighted as it’s spoken.

  • III.
    Your place is savedalways

    Stop halfway through a sentence on your phone, open the same book on your computer, and it carries on from exactly where you left off.

III · Printed books

Want it on paper?
We ship the book.

Order a printed copy from inside the app and we send it to your door. It is the same book you were listening to, on paper, so you can lend it to a friend. Pick any book to see its details.

Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky · Volume 1 of 9 · 1866 About this book

Crime and Punishment, 1866

The app

Read and listen
on your phone.

Get the Roman Reads app on Google Play. The iPhone version is coming soon. All your books are in it: read them, listen to them, switch to a simpler version, or ask the AI about anything you don't understand.

Free appAndroid now, iPhone soonAudiobooks and PDFs
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