slowread

Why

Most Markdown previews are developer tools: cramped, cluttered, styled as an afterthought. A pane of monospace at full window width is fine for checking that a link works, and miserable for actually reading eight hundred words.

slowread renders a file the way a well-made book would — one calm column set at a measure the eye can sweep without aiming, real typography, generous line height, and nothing in the margins begging for attention. On top of that sit a few tools that help distractible readers hold the line they are on: a focus mode that dims everything except the band you are reading, bionic reading that bolds the first part of each word as an eye anchor, a table of contents that tracks your position, and an honest estimate of how long the document will take.

It reads .md files — notes, specs, READMEs, exported documents, anything Markdown. Tables, code blocks with syntax highlighting, task lists and footnotes all render. Three themes, adjustable text size, serif or sans.

Nothing is uploaded

The rendering happens in your browser. Your document is never sent anywhere, never written to a server, never logged, and never stored — there is no account, no cookie, and no analytics on this page. Closing the tab is all it takes to erase it. You can confirm this yourself: open your browser's network panel and paste a file. Nothing leaves.

slowread also runs as a local command-line reader for the files on your own machine, with live reload and in-browser editing that saves back to disk.