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Akshay's X post (2025-11-18) announces a free EPUB reader designed for reading…

2025-11-18 · 00:00 UTC ·0 min read

Brief

Akshay's X post (2025-11-18) announces a free EPUB reader designed for reading books with LLMs—users upload an EPUB and begin reading, addressing shortcomings he experienced with Apple Books. Andrej Karpathy replied pointing to his reader3 GitHub repo (v3) that shows a chapter-by-chapter EPUB→LLM workflow (Project Gutenberg recommended) and a 0:21 demo clip.

Source evidence

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

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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

0:21

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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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