Terms of use
By using reading.mcbflow.com, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use it.
What it is
A free reading tracker and reader that works inside your browser. It opens PDF, EPUB, audio, text, Markdown and web page files you choose, and text you paste. It doesn't upload, host, share or publish your files.
Your files
Only add files you have the right to use. You're responsible for the files you open and what you do with them. The app doesn't remove copy protection: it won't open DRM-protected EPUBs or password-protected PDFs.
Read aloud, text mode, text recognition and logging can make mistakes
Text pulled out of a PDF can be out of order or incomplete, text recognized from scanned pages can contain errors, header and footer cleanup can occasionally hide a real line, voices can mispronounce words, and automatic page counts are estimates. Check the original when accuracy matters.
Use it fairly
Don't use the app to break the law, or try to disrupt, overload or tamper with the site that hosts it.
Ownership
The reading.mcbflow.com name, design and code belong to the developer, except the third-party parts listed under Credits, which belong to their owners. Your files, notes and data stay yours.
No warranty
reading.mcbflow.com is provided free, “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. The developer doesn't promise that it will be error-free, uninterrupted, or that it will keep your data safe. Your library lives only in this browser and can be lost if browser data is cleared, so keep backups of anything important.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, the developer won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost data, arising from your use of reading.mcbflow.com, even if told they were possible. Some states don't allow certain warranty disclaimers or limits on damages, so some of these limits may not apply to you.
Other people's software
The app uses open-source libraries and fonts under their own licenses, listed under Credits. Book search is provided by Open Library, and online voices by third parties, under their own terms.
Changes
The app may change or stop being available at any time. These terms may be updated too, and the date below shows the latest version. If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
Credits and licenses
- PDF.js by Mozilla and contributors. Apache License 2.0. Served from this site.
- StPageFlip (page-flip) by Nodlik. MIT License. Served from this site.
- Tesseract.js and tesseract.js-core by Project Naptha and contributors, built on the Tesseract OCR engine (originally HP, then Google) and its English trained data. Apache License 2.0. Bundled parts include regenerator-runtime (MIT), buffer and ieee754 by Feross Aboukhadijeh (MIT, BSD-3-Clause) and zlib.js by imaya (MIT). Served from this site.
- Literata by The Literata Project Authors and Atkinson Hyperlegible by the Braille Institute of America, used for book text and quotes. SIL Open Font License 1.1. Embedded in this page. The interface uses your device's system font.
- Book search and covers from Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive.
- Sample book “Reading Out Loud” was written for this app and uses DejaVu fonts (Bitstream Vera license).
- Interface icons are simple line drawings defined in this page, not taken from an icon library.
reading.mcbflow.com is an independent project and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Mozilla, the Internet Archive, Google, Microsoft or any other company named here. PDF is an open standard (ISO 32000) and EPUB is a W3C standard.
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