BookShelves eBook Reader

Your private book library. Read EPUBs and PDFs with beautiful typography, discover 1.5 million free classics, and sync seamlessly across all your Apple devices.

BookShelves is an EPUB, PDF, and comic book reader with a built-in catalog of 1.5 million free books. Discover public domain classics, organize your digital library, and sync seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud.

DISCOVER 1.5 MILLION+ FREE BOOKS

Browse and download from curated public domain sources: • 1.5 million+ classic works — Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, and thousands more • 1,100+ premium editions from Standard Ebooks with professional formatting • Internet Archive — millions of historical texts and rare books • 1,200+ Spanish classics from the Biblioteca Nacional de España • Browse OPDS catalogs from external libraries and servers

One tap to download. No account required.

POWERFUL READING EXPERIENCE

• Paginated or continuous scroll — read your way • 10 themes: Light, Dark, Sepia, Quiet, Vintage Paper, Night Sky, Forest, Ocean Mist, Midnight, Dark Academia • 10 bundled fonts including OpenDyslexic for accessible reading • Adjustable line spacing, margins, text justification, and bold text • Highlight in 5 colors and add notes to any passage • Export highlights to Markdown, JSON, or CSV • Dictionary look-up with language detection • Full-text search across chapters • Nested table of contents navigation • Bookmarks with iCloud sync • Right-to-left reading for Arabic, Hebrew, and CJK texts • Full keyboard and trackpad support • Multi-window reading on Mac

COMIC BOOKS AND MANGA

A dedicated comic reader for your collection: • CBZ, CBR, and CB7 format support • Two-page spreads for landscape reading • Right-to-left mode for manga with reversed tap zones and swipes • Auto-detected from metadata or toggled manually

SEAMLESS ICLOUD SYNC (Pro)

Your entire library syncs automatically across all your devices: • Books and cover images • Reading progress and current page • Shelves, tags, and ratings • Highlights, notes, and bookmarks • Reader preferences (font, theme, layout)

Start reading on your iPhone, continue on your iPad, finish on your Mac.

SMART LIBRARY MANAGEMENT

• Automatic metadata and cover art fetching • System shelves: All Books, Recently Added, Reading, Finished, Favorites • Custom shelves for any collection • Color-coded tags for categorization • Search and filter by title, author, or tag • Grid and list views • 5-star ratings • Drag-and-drop import, Files app sharing, or OPDS catalogs • EPUB repair — auto-fixes broken navigation and missing metadata • Import from Calibre libraries with best-format selection

FORMAT SUPPORT

• EPUB — professional rendering with beautiful typography • PDF — native viewer with smooth scrolling and search • CBZ / CBR / CB7 — comic book archives • FB2 — FictionBook 2 format (auto-converts to EPUB) • MOBI / AZW3 / KF8 / KEPUB — auto-converts to EPUB for reading

CALIBRE WIRELESS SYNC (macOS)

Connect KOReader or other Calibre-compatible devices over Wi-Fi. Reading progress syncs both ways.

OPDS SERVER (macOS)

Share your library on your local network. Any OPDS-compatible reader can browse and download your books.

PRIVACY FIRST

• No account required — your data stays on your devices • No personal data collected • No ads — clean, distraction-free reading • iCloud keeps your library private and secure

FREE AND PRO

Free: 10 books with all reading features. Pro unlocks unlimited books, iCloud sync, email to Kindle/Kobo/reMarkable, highlight export, and OPDS server.

Pro is available as a one-time purchase or subscription (monthly/annual, select regions). Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in Apple ID account settings.

FEEDBACK

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All books from discovery sources are public domain or openly licensed.