Wikisource Reader

Read | Download | Annotate | Share free books

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The App

The Wikisource Reader App is a community-maintained mobile application for Android users that lets you download and read freely licensed works from the open and free digital library of Wikisource .

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The Community

Join Wikimedia — one of the largest open knowledge communities in the world. Wikisource is not only a digital library of the Wikimedia world containing innumerable scans of copyright-free books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts etc., but it is a unique transcription platform to make these materials freely and openly available, searchable and accesible over internet.

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Features

Discover the tools that make finding, organising, and reading books from Wikisource easier.

Filter screen where users filter for books in different languages.

Filter languages New

Filter books in different languages to search them easily.

Library screen where users can store selected books to read.

Store books in your library New

Store all your selected books in your library, so that you can read them, share with others and delete them as you like.

Download screen where users can download selected books before reading.

Download and read selected books New

Download selected books in Epub format and start reading.

Content screen to navigate between chapters.

Navigate through chapters New

Search for chapters listed in the book and directly navigate to specific chapters as you need.

Reading screen where users can read selected books.

Read books New

Read your selected books from the Wikisource app! You can resume reading from the page where you have left last time.

Annotate screen where users can select texts to highlight, underline, take notes, copy and search the web.

Annotate texts New

Highlight, underline and take notes from selected texts and check them later as you need.

Screen with customised background and text colors, font size, and page margins.

Customise reading screen New

Change background and text colors, font size, page margins etc. to adjust your reading experience.

Installation & Usage

Installing and using the app is easy:

  1. Install the app. Download Wikisource Reader from the Google Play Store.
  2. Find a book. Search for books of your interest in your preferred languages.
  3. Save it. Download, store and read books directly from the app.
  4. Jump around. Navigate the book easily by jumping through the chapters.
  5. Mark it up. Highlight, underline, annotate or copy texts as you need.
  6. Make it yours. Set background and text colors, font size, page margins etc. to match your reading preferences.
  7. Listen. Use text to speech audio when you are not reading.