Lexis is a quiet, single‑file reader for PDFs, EPUBs, and the rest of your shelf — with highlights, notes, citations, and a built‑in stacks of Project Gutenberg and arXiv. Your library lives on your machine. Always.
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible — or from one of our elder poets — in a paragraph of today's newspaper.
17She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common sense.★
No servers, no accounts, no telemetry. Your library, highlights, and notes live in browser storage or — on desktop — a folder you own. The whole app is one HTML file you could read by candlelight.
PDF, EPUB, MOBI, AZW/AZW3, FB2, CBZ, TXT, DOCX, HTML, Markdown. Plus .lex bundles and .lexis backups for sharing annotations between devices without a cloud.
Four colours, each renamable. Tag them, write notes, and re‑find them across the entire library. Annotations key by content hash, so renaming files never breaks a marginalium.
Browse 70,000 free classics from Gutendex without leaving the app. Subjects auto‑map to a clean academic taxonomy. Open Eliot, Tolstoy, or Austen in two clicks.
A research panel beside your library: 2M arXiv preprints and 250M OpenAlex works, filtered to open access, with abstracts, citations, and one‑click PDF.
Web Speech TTS with adjustable rate and pitch, voice list, and live word‑highlighting that follows the reader. Walk the dog while Middlemarch finishes its paragraph.
Drop a file, paste a URL, or open a Gutenberg classic. Lexis fingerprints the content (SHA‑256), so the same book on two devices shares one set of marginalia — synced through a portable .lexis backup, no account required.
— your shelf, 70,000 free classics, and the research stacks — all in one window —
The Research panel sits beside your library. Filter by field, browse abstracts, and open the PDF directly into the reader — with highlights and notes already armed.
We characterise a family of sequence models in which attention is replaced by a linear recurrence with learned gating, and prove a separation result on long‑range dependencies that depends only on the spectral radius of the recurrence matrix…
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One file. No account. No telemetry. Drop a book on it and start reading.