The margins are where the real conversation happens.
Marginalia is a beautiful EPUB reader built around the act of reading closely — highlighting passages, leaving notes, and seeing what the people you follow are marking in the same books. Bring your own DRM-free ebooks. No walled garden, no store, no lock-in.
Reading, the way it should be.
Beautiful typography, thoughtful layout, a reader that gets out of your way. Upload any DRM-free EPUB and open it to an experience designed entirely around the text — no ads, no storefront, nothing interrupting the book. Adjust typeface, size, line spacing, and margins to suit how you read. Then just read.
Highlight what moves you.
Select any passage and it's saved — with the page, the color you chose, and any note you add. Your highlights sync across devices and stay in your account as long as you want them. When you're ready to leave, export everything as Markdown or JSON. They were always yours to take.
See what others see in the same book.
Follow readers whose taste you trust, and their public highlights appear in your feed. The sentences that stopped them. The passages they read twice. The notes they left in the margins. It's the closest thing to reading beside someone — and often the best way to find what you're reading next.
Your books, your rules.
Marginalia works only with DRM-free EPUBs, because those are books you actually own. Bring files from Tor, Smashwords, Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, Humble Bundle, or your favorite independent publisher. Built on open standards: EPUB 3 and W3C Web Annotations. No proprietary format will ever hold your reading life hostage.
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