Wikisource Reader

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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

Search screen where users search books from Wikisource.

Search books New

Search books in different languages from Wikisource which are ready to be read.

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 which you want to read in your library, so that you can select and read them as you like. You can also delete books too.

Download screen where users can download selected books before reading.

Download selected books New

Download your selected books in Epub format, so that you can read them in your free time.

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 note, copy and search from 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, 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. Download Wikisource Reader app from the Google Play Store.
  2. Search for books of your interest in your prefered languages.
  3. Download, store and read books directly from the app.
  4. Navigate the book easily by jumping through the chapters.
  5. Highlight, Underline, Annotate or Copy texts as you need
  6. Set background and text colors, font size, page margins etc. compatible with your reading preferences.
  7. Listen to text to speech audio when you are not reading.