A tool for reading ANYTHING.A few words at a time.
Your book, on the shelf
Writing something of your own?
Open your file in LOOD, then tap its icon.
Choose Make a book.
It gets a cover and a place of its own, right there between the classics.
Welcome, Reader
LOOD lets you devour any intimidating text by breaking it down into smaller, smarter, more manageable sized bites.
You can finally read it all: that classic novel, every overlong email, and that growing collection of reports or recipes – fast, and with more focus than ever before.
Simply select some text on your phone, or open a word-based document, and you can read it in the comfort of your new LOOD reading room. Free from distractions, and free to turn the page with only your thumb.
Please explore freely, and tweak the settings until everything is just right for you. Read at your own pace, and stop wherever you like. LOOD will always keep your place.
Available now
Your OWN words, made into books
Paste any text, open a file, an EPUB, a PDF or a Word document, or photograph a printed page. LOOD takes off the publisher’s notices, contents pages and page numbers, finds the chapters and starts you at chapter one. Then give it a cover and a place on your shelf, right between the classics.
Keep: lines worth keeping
Turn any line into a poster, in moods like Cosmic, Quiet, Spite and Neato. Your scrapbook holds every line worth keeping, and the For a hard day shelf is there when you need it.
Comfort, your way
Text controls to enhance every word, day or night: size, extra spacing for dyslexic readers, strong contrast, plus a calm mode for when you need visual quiet. Find it all under Comfort.
Never lose your place
Every book opens exactly where you stopped, even without signal.
No nasty surprises
Books with mature content tell you what’s ahead, hidden under a dark bar until you choose to look. No spoilers.
Nothing to sign up for
Your shelf, your belongings and your settings all stay free and available on your phone.
Your library, saved
One small backup file holds your places, bookmarks, your own books and your Keep scrapbook. Bring it all back on a new phone in one tap.
LOOD Editions
Thirty-nine classic books, each set and styled by hand to make reading easy as. The colour band at the foot of each spine tells you what kind of book it is; a thin gold rule above it means it suits every age. Expect a new LOOD Edition on the 1st of every month, chosen by LOOD readers like you. LOOD Editions are always free.
When a new LOOD Ed. arrives
Books with mature content
Some books you discover in LOOD may include mature content. LOOD will automatically move these books to a hidden shelf in your library. You can move them at any time.
Your library, saved
Everything you do in LOOD lives on this phone: where you are in every book, your bookmarks, the books you made and your Keep scrapbook. Save a backup now and then, and you can bring it all back on a new phone.
On iPhone
- Select text
- Share…
- LOOD
In the app, LOOD sits in the Share sheet of Mail, Safari, Notes, Books and PDFs, so any text is two taps from becoming slides. This page is a prototype. The library holds 39 LOOD Editions, with a new one each month from January 2027.
Hello, I’m Elo, LOOD’s creator and Librarian.
When I discovered I was neurodivergent in adulthood, I finally understood why a busy page always left me feeling both swamped and bored at the same time. I love books but struggle to read them unless the conditions are perfect.
I’ll be honest: I originally made LOOD all for myself. So I can finally read everything I want to read. I want that for you, too, friend.
Please enjoy LOOD in any way you wish. Take care.
—Elo
Where everything comes from
Every book here is in the public domain, and every word is shown exactly as its author wrote it. LOOD only splits the text into slides.
The books
The type
All typefaces come from Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License: Lexend, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, Libre Caslon Text, EB Garamond, Archivo, Bodoni Moda, Alegreya, Fraunces, Literata and Spectral.
The pictures
Covers, motifs and patterns are drawn for LOOD. The printed pictures on some spines are made from images chosen by our Librarian; each one will be credited here by name.
Silhouettes come from PhyloPic, a free library of silhouettes of living things, chosen for LOOD by our Librarian. Each is listed below with its maker and licence.
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The bookends on the shelf are real objects, photographed by museums and free to use:
The plates, the full-page illustrations in some books, come from early illustrated editions, all in the public domain:
The tools
EPUB files are opened with JSZip (MIT licence) and PDFs with Mozilla’s pdf.js (Apache 2.0).
Focus on the words.
LOOD™ and the O|O mark are trademarks of LOOD.
© 2026 LOOD. All rights reserved.
Slide along the shelf. Tap a book to take it out.