Akshay announced on X (2025-11-18) a free EPUB reader that uploads EPUB files and…

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Akshay announced on X (2025-11-18) a free EPUB reader that uploads EPUB files and provides an LLM-ready reading workflow, designed to improve on Apple Books. Andrej Karpathy replied linking his reader3 repo showing chapter-by-chapter EPUB handling and a simple copy-paste integration with LLMs, recommending sources like Project Gutenberg; the post recorded engagement figures 13, 24, 385, 553.

title: Akshay on X: "i wanted a clean experience for reading books with LLMs, and apple books fell short so i built what i wanted upload EPUB & start reading. free to use https://t.co/28VaO7EpnR" / X
publication: X (formerly Twitter)
published: 2025-11-18T00:00:00
source_url: https://x.com/akshayvkt/status/2011962774826762240

word_count: 89

i wanted a clean experience for reading books with LLMs, and apple books fell short
so i built what i wanted
upload EPUB & start reading. free to use

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Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

Replying to @karpathy

I put up a simple repo I call reader3 (it's my 3rd version...) to illustrate how I read EPUBs with LLMs. Basically get some epub (e.g. Project Gutenberg is great), go chapter by chapter, and with this you can easily copy paste text to your favorite LLM.
github.com/karpathy/reade

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