# LOOD

> LOOD is a free reading app for phones that breaks any text into short slides of a few words at a time, so big books become small, manageable bites. Tagline: "A tool for reading ANYTHING. A few words at a time." Made for anyone who wants reading to feel lighter.

LOOD runs in the phone's web browser at https://www.lood.life/read and can be added to the Home Screen on iPhone (Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen) or installed on Android (Chrome → Install). No account is needed to start reading. LOOD Editions are always free. There are no ads, and LOOD does not sell personal data.

## What LOOD does
- **Slides, not pages**: any text is split into short slides that you turn with one thumb. Every slide of a book uses the same text size and starts in the same place; nothing shrinks to fit.
- **Read anything**: classic LOOD Editions, plus your own text — paste anything, or open EPUB, PDF and Word (.docx) files. LOOD removes publisher notices, contents pages and page numbers, finds the chapters and starts you at chapter one. You can give your own document a cover and a place on your shelf.
- **Never lose your place**: every book opens exactly where you stopped, even without signal (works offline once opened).
- **Comfort settings**: Calm (soft colour, nothing moves), Nature (forest colours), LOOD, or Dada (loud colour, clear words); Day or Night; one text size for every book; Clear sans (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) or each book's own curated typeface; pictures on or off; Listen (reads aloud; on phones that support it, each word lights up as it is read).
- **Respects the phone's accessibility settings**: reduced motion, increased contrast (switches on Strong contrast) and reduced transparency; labelled for screen readers.
- **No streaks, no shame**: milestones are celebrated (a finished chapter, a finished book); there are no streaks to lose and few numbers on screen.
- **No nasty surprises**: books with mature content say what's ahead before you choose to read, and can live on a private shelf.
- **Discover**: search, seasonal shelves, genre colour bands, "lines to fall for", word of the day, and a Book of the Month.
- **Keep**: turn any line into a shareable poster in moods like Edition, Gothic, Cosmic, Neato, Swoon, Shout, Spite, Unhinged, Quiet and Postcard; a scrapbook keeps every line worth keeping.

## Faithful texts
Every LOOD Edition is in the public domain, and every word is shown exactly as its author wrote it. LOOD only splits the text into slides; it never changes words, punctuation or capitals.

## LOOD Editions (the current shelf; which books are offered can vary by country, following each country's copyright law)
- Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (1890)
- Frankenstein — Mary Shelley (1818)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll (1865)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum (1900)
- Shakespeare’s Sonnets — William Shakespeare (1609)
- Carmilla — J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)
- Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (1847)
- The Odyssey — Homer (c. 700 BC)
- A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens (1843)
- Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847)
- Dracula — Bram Stoker (1897)
- The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde (1895)
- The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells (1898)
- The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
- Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman (1855)
- The Awakening — Kate Chopin (1899)
- The Well of Loneliness — Radclyffe Hall (1928)
- Ulysses — James Joyce (1922)
- Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen (1811)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
- The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran (1923)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass (1845)
- Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf (1925)
- Orlando — Virginia Woolf (1928)
- The Garden Party and Other Stories — Katherine Mansfield (1922)
- The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
- The Time Machine — H. G. Wells (1895)
- The Turn of the Screw — Henry James (1898)
- The Book of Tea — Kakuzō Okakura (1906)
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius (c. 170 AD)
- Goblin Market and Other Poems — Christina Rossetti (1862)
- A Room of One’s Own — Virginia Woolf (1929)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Washington Irving (1820)
- The Great God Pan — Arthur Machen (1894)
- The Willows — Algernon Blackwood (1907)
- Tales of Terror — Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

## Links
- [LOOD home](https://www.lood.life/): what LOOD is, and how to put it on your phone
- [Open LOOD](https://www.lood.life/read): the app itself
- [Accessibility](https://www.lood.life/accessibility): how LOOD is built for every kind of reader (one text size, readable letters, spacing, contrast, read aloud)
- [Manifesto](https://www.lood.life/manifesto): what LOOD believes
- [Privacy](https://www.lood.life/privacy): what stays on your phone and what an optional account keeps