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I've been reading EPUBs on Windows for years, and I kept hitting the same wall: every reader I tried was either a Chromium instance wearing a trench coat, or a 15-year-old interface with a 2005 font stack. Caliber is powerful but feels like a database admin tool. Adobe Digital Editions is Adobe Digital Editions. And the newer subscription readers want an account, a sync, and a reason to keep phoning home. Most of the readers are based on Electron, which I hate, or they have an old interface that doesn't motivate me to read. So I built the thing I wanted: a quiet, local reader for Windows. It's called History. The numbers (measured on my machine, not marketing copy): Installer: 3.5 MB — ~9 MB installed Memory while reading: under 60 MB Cold book open: under 100 ms Telemetry bytes sent: 0 How it got that small: the core is Rust on Tauri 2.0, using the WebView2 runtime Windows already ships. I'm not bundling a browser to render text. That was the whole bet: a reading tool should be a text engine with beautiful typography, not an app platform. So it will work very well even on low-resource computers. The interface disappears. While you read, menus and toolbars fade out. No bars, no banners, no "rate us" popup. Paged reading with keyboard/mouse/click, Literata typography, three themes (Day / warm Sepia / deep Night) — and the window frame itself follows the theme so you don't get a bright border glowing at 1 AM. Saved quotes with a focus glow. Select text → save it with a personal note. Later, clicking that quote teleports you to the page and gently press the paragraph so your eyes find it instantly. It's my favorite feature and it came from my own frustration of hunting for highlights. No cloud sync, on purpose. Your library, quotes, progress and stats live in a local folder. There is no account because there is no server. If your PC dies, you have an export file, not a login. Completed Windows 10/11. English/Spanish. Modern design (3 themes). Read-aloud feature. Ultralight. Local-first. In development Mac and Linux. Web version. Website: historiareader.com/en P.S. I know the screenshots on the website and video are in Spanish, but the app is 99% translated into English.   submitted by   /u/snYk07 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/13 15:45:30