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I built an opinionated minimalist ePub/pdf online reader

Details

External ID
48710584
Source
HN
Company
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Product
I built an opinionated minimalist ePub/pdf online reader
Website domain
mirror.forum
Launched
June 28, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
7
Upvotes percentile
0.42008196721311475
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

Hey so I am making my own book reader and wanted to share it with y'all on hackernews and I saw a submission talking about DRM free books[0] so I decided to submit this submission on Hackernews to show what I am upto :-DI prefer minimalism so I have created three different flavors of it depending upon the particular use-cases and I have linked the most minimalist one as the submission.If someone is interested in a Epub/pdf reader, I have recently made one: https://epub.mirror.forum/After making that, I was also feeling the need of having standard book downloads and seeing this project as well. I have added it first using cors.sh: https://guten.mirror.forumI have also added a cf worker native solution which focuses on the search aspect only as well: https://gutencf.mirror.forumFeel free to ask me or give me any feedback or which one you might like more within this somewhat A/B testing experiment of mine and I just hope that it might be useful to anybody.Cheers and take care![0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709186

Enrichment

Theme
document and PDF utility tools
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Vertical SaaS
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
minimalist online epub and pdf reader
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a client-side reader web application that can be built quickly by pairing open-source libraries like PDF.js and ePub.js with standard browser storage for notes and bookmarks.

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Launched 240 days after the earliest competitor.

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