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Babooks
All your reading in one place — highlight, cite, listen
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All your reading in one place — highlight, cite, listen
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Upload PDF, Word & EPUB, highlight and listen with up to four voices — APA, Chicago, Harvard & MLA citations and personal or group projects built in. Free to try — new users get up to 3 months free.
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Babooks keeps all your reading in one place — and trying it is free.
Upload your files (PDF, Word .docx, DRM-free EPUB, ODT, RTF, TXT, MD, HTML, CSV, SRT or VTT), paste text or a YouTube link, and organize everything in a library by subject, with tags that group your ideas and passages by topic. Open any text in a clean, sheet-style reader, highlight and underline the passages that matter, and add comments: everything is saved and, with your account, syncs across your phone, computer and tablet.
Open a big PDF and Babooks builds its table of contents for you: chapters are detected automatically, shown with both the file page and the printed page, and tapping a chapter takes you straight to it — no more hunting through hundreds of pages. Mark your place with bookmarks (seven designs inspired by the Wonders of the Ancient World), and leave comments right on the page or paragraph — typed with the keyboard, or handwritten with your pencil on the iPad, on blank or ruled sheets, in eight ink colors.
And reading literally pays: with Superreader, your active reading and listening minutes earn points — extra points for reading in another language — unlock levels from New Reader to Guardian of Alexandria, and can be exchanged for free months (a full free year costs 3,600 points).
When it is time to write, your references come out ready: APA, Chicago, Harvard (Cite Them Right) or MLA, generated inside the book or from your Research Notebook, with one-tap copy and export to RIS, BibTeX and CSL JSON for tools like Zotero.
Working on your own or studying with classmates? Create a project in the Research Notebook — personal, or a group project with your team: for group projects, the document and its passages are shared with the people you invite, while everyone's original books stay safe in their own library.
You can also listen to your readings with one voice — or with up to four alternating voices, like a podcast. Babooks tracks your reading and listening time in "My Reading Time", builds a personal card you can share, and lets you share favorite quotes as cards too. It also comes loaded with classic books from Project Gutenberg, organized by language and topic, ready to discover.
Babooks is free to try today — new users get up to 3 months free. When paid plans launch, Babooks will cost much less than the big reading apps. And if you're a student who truly needs it and can't pay, you can get it free.
Built by a professor with 10 years of teaching experience at several universities — and now a PhD student at UT Austin. Babooks was made for students at every level — bachelor's, master's, doctorate and postdoc — and for anyone who simply loves to read. No contract: just open it and start reading.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Rodolfo, a Dominican writer and PhD student in Spanish & Literature at UT Austin.
Built by a professor with 10 years of teaching experience at several universities — and now a PhD student at UT Austin. I know the classroom from both sides of the desk.
I built Babooks because my own doctorate was drowning me in readings: PDFs everywhere, highlights lost in three different apps, and references rebuilt by hand for every paper. So I made the reader I needed — one place to upload everything, organize it by subject, tag the ideas I care about, highlight and comment, and get my APA / Chicago / Harvard / MLA references out ready to paste. My favorite part: I can listen to my readings with up to four voices, like a podcast, while I walk across campus — and my projects can be personal, or shared with my team when a paper is a group effort.
Babooks is free to try. My plan is simple: first, I want as many students and readers as possible using it. Later, when people see how much time it saves them, we'll talk about paying for it — and when that day comes, new users will get up to 3 months free as a launch offer, at a price much less than the big reading apps. One promise: if you're a student who truly needs Babooks and can't pay, you can get it free.
I'd love your feedback: what do you read with? What is the one feature your current reading app is missing? I'll be here all day answering.
Rodolfo