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Audio for when your eyes are done for the day

What do you want to hear tonight?

A series written only for you, or your own book, performed by a full cast.

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A vibe in. A season out.

Tap a feeling or type two lines. We write the season, cast every voice, score it and give it a title song. Nobody else will ever hear this story unless you send it to them.

Give your eyes the night off.

01Tap a vibe, or type your idea
02We write, cast and score eight episodes
03Listen tonight, then pass it to a friend
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Episode 1, the whole thing8 episodes · title song · full cast
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Dracula
Bram Stoker · full cast · 27 chapters
I · Jonathan Harker's JournalMP3
II · Jonathan Harker's JournalMP3
III · Jonathan Harker's JournalMP3
IV · Jonathan Harker's JournalMP3
Chapter 2 · the Count's welcome, full cast
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Bring the book you keep meaning to read.

PDF, EPUB or pasted text. We split it into chapters, cast every character, and hand you the files. Download every chapter and keep it: that is why it costs a fraction of an audiobook app.

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02Pick a voice, or the full cast
03Press play, download every chapter
NarratorHe motioned me in with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation, Count Dracula“Welcome to my house. Enter freely and of your own will.” NarratorThe instant I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand, grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, Count Dracula“I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in, the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.”
Voices & read-along

Every character gets a voice of their own.

Fifty-seven narrators in nine languages. Turn on full-cast mode and we read the book once, find who's speaking, and cast each one. And read-along underlines every word as it plays, so you can watch the page while you listen.

Tap any voice to hear it. The passage: Dracula, chapter II.

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Twenty-five classics, on the house.

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What this book gives you

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

R. L. Stevenson

A respectable London doctor's will names a violent stranger nobody has met as his sole heir, and his lawyer starts pulling the thread. The book is better if you pretend you don't already know it.

If Fight Club lives in your head, this is where it was born.

Dr Henry Jekyll · the respectable doctor with a locked laboratory door
Mr Edward Hyde · small, young, and wrong in a way nobody can name
▤ 10 tight chapters, around 2.5 hours. One evening, one sitting.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Dracula Pride and Prejudice The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Frankenstein Alice in Wonderland The Moonstone Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Wuthering Heights Treasure Island Peter Pan Crime and Punishment The Hound of the Baskervilles Emma Carmilla Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The Jungle Book Persuasion The Wind in the Willows The Sign of the Four Sense and Sensibility The Monkey's Paw The Brothers Karamazov The Iliad The Great Gatsby
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Cultural capital, on your ears’ time.

Your eyes clock out with work. Your ears are free on the commute, at the gym, over the dishes. We make the habit stick: a weekly goal, a streak that survives a busy week, and a badge for every book you actually finish.

The price

About the price of a coffee.

One credit turns one book, up to 100,000 words, into an audiobook you keep.

$14.95
A typical audiobook, bought outright
$2.75
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Annual 36 audiobooks a year

$8.25 / month
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  • 36 credits a year, use them anytime
  • Natural voices in nine languages
  • Read-along, ambience, full-cast mode
  • Download and keep every audiobook
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  • 3 credits every month
  • Natural voices in nine languages
  • Read-along, ambience, full-cast mode
  • Download and keep every audiobook
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Free plan: the 25 classics, read-along and all, no card. Extra credits $5 each, anytime.

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Reading predicts growth, in vocabulary, in knowledge, in how far you go, more strongly than almost anything else you can choose to do. The problem was never the books. It's that work takes your eyes all day.

British Cohort Study of 17,000 people · Sullivan & Brown, UCL Institute of Education

Listening is the bridge: the same books, the same cultural capital, without asking your eyes for anything. And audiobook platforms price it like a luxury. So we had to do something.

What can I upload?

PDF, EPUB, or pasted text. Clean, text-selectable PDFs work best; scanned or heavily-formatted files can reduce quality. Citations and end-matter get cleaned up so you don't hear reference lists.

Do I really keep the files?

Yes. Every audiobook you make is downloadable chapter by chapter as MP3, and stays in your library. Cancel and they're still yours.

How long does a book take?

Usually minutes, not hours. You'll see it appear in your library and can start listening to early chapters while the rest finishes.

What does the free plan include?

Twenty-five classics with every feature: read-along, ambience, progress tracking. Converting your own books needs credits, from $2.75 each on Annual.

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