A speed reader for the public-domain classics
One word at a time, at a pace you set. Jump straight to any chapter. 77 books, free, in your browser — nothing to install and no account needed to start.
380 words per minute · Meditations, Book I
01How it works
Liminanotio does not try to be a library, a note-taking app and a study tool at once. It shows you one word at a time, lets you change how much text you see, and gets you to the chapter you want.
Words appear in a fixed spot, so your eyes never move across the page. Long words and sentence endings get held a beat longer, so the pace stays readable instead of merely fast.
Swipe sideways to widen the view when a passage needs it, then swipe back. The single word is home; the other views are somewhere you visit.
Every book carries a contents list recovered from its original source text, so you can open at chapter nine instead of scrolling to find it. Tap an unfamiliar word for a plain definition.
02The library
Every text is confirmed public domain before it is added, and comes from Project Gutenberg with its source recorded, so you can always check what you are reading against the original.
Private notebooks of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, written as personal reflections on Stoic philosophy, duty, and m…
03The method
RSVP stands for rapid serial visual presentation. Instead of laying text out in lines for your eyes to travel across, it shows one word at a time in a single fixed position.
Most of the time spent reading a page is not spent reading. It goes on saccades — the small jumps your eyes make between words — and on re-reading lines you have already passed. Holding the word still removes both. What is left is the part that was always the point: recognising the word and understanding the sentence.
It is not the right tool for everything. Poetry wants its line breaks, and a dense legal clause wants re-reading. That is why the sideways swipe exists: when a passage needs the shape of the page back, you take it back, then return to the word.
No account needed to start. Your place, your pace and your word list stay on your device.