Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Всё смешалось в доме Облонских. Жена узнала, что муж был в связи с бывшею в их доме француженкою-гувернанткой.
Literary AI translation
Read the world. Preserve the magic.
Readlume renders any book into your language with a translator's soul — every cadence, idiom, and shade of meaning kept intact — while quietly teaching you the original, line by luminous line.
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Built for serious readers
Quietly powerful, under every page
Readlume pairs literary-grade translation with the science of memory — so the words you meet today are the words you keep tomorrow.
- 3Interface languages
- ∞Public-domain books
- FSRSMemory-based scheduling
- OCRCapture from any page
No accounts to sell, no pages locked away — just the whole of literature, ready when you are.
Deep Context
Beyond translation. True comprehension.
Most tools translate a sentence and forget it. Readlume reads the whole book first. A retrieval engine weaves every chapter into one living memory, so each rendered line carries the author's voice, register, and recurring motifs forward, from the first page to the last. The result reads less like a translation and more like the book you were always meant to read.
- Authorial voiceTone and cadence stay true to the writer across every chapter.
- Whole-book memoryNames, places, and motifs are remembered, never re-invented.
- Faithful registerFormal or intimate, archaic or modern, the register is preserved.
- Idiom, not literalFigures of speech are reborn, not mangled word for word.
Anna Karenina
Part One · IHappy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that her husband was carrying on an affair.
Rendered with the cadence established earlier in the chapter, the parallel “happy / unhappy” structure is preserved to honour Tolstoy's opening.
The Method
From page to memory
Three deliberate movements turn any text you encounter into language you truly own — captured, understood, and woven into long-term recall.
Capture
Snap a photograph, upload a file, or paste a passage. Precise OCR lifts the words from the printed page so nothing stands between you and the story.
Step 01Translate
Read with a translation tuned to you. A single depth control glides from literal gloss to literary prose, preserving rhythm, register, and nuance.
Step 02Master
Save the words that matter. An FSRS spaced-repetition engine schedules each review at the perfect moment, turning fleeting recognition into lasting fluency.
Step 03
Localization, not literalism
One sentence. Three depths of meaning.
Most tools hand you words. Readlume hands you the writer's intent — scroll to watch a single line deepen from the literal, to the literary, to the wholly cultural.
Il pleut des cordes.Depth 01Literal
“It is raining ropes.”
Depth 02Literary
“The rain comes down in long, taut threads.”
Depth 03Cultural
“It's raining cats and dogs — a proper downpour.”
Every reading preserves rhythm, register, and idiom — so a French proverb still lands like a proverb in English.
Read at depthEverything you need to read deeply, in any language
Six quietly powerful tools, composed into one reading room. Capture a page, understand its world, and remember every word — without ever leaving the story.
OCR Capture
Point your camera at any printed page and watch the text lift cleanly onto the screen — paperbacks, signage, and handwriting, ready to read in seconds.
Literary Context
A retrieval-aware companion grounds every passage in its source — characters, motifs, and history surfaced from the work itself, never invented.
Spoiler-Safe Companion
Ask anything as you go. Our reading partner knows exactly how far you've read and answers without ever giving away what comes next.
FSRS Memory Bank
Every word you save enters a spaced-repetition schedule tuned by the FSRS algorithm, resurfacing each term at the precise moment you're about to forget it.
Tap-Word Dictionary
Tap any word for an instant, context-aware definition, pronunciation, and translation — drawn from the sentence around it, not a generic gloss.
TTS Read-Along
Let a natural narrator voice the text aloud while each word highlights in time, building your ear for rhythm, accent, and flow as you follow along.
A boundless library
Any book. Any language.
Read across English, Українська, Polski and beyond — every page rendered in a voice you understand, drawn from a vast and ever-growing public-domain library.
Thousands of timeless works, waiting in the language of your choosing.
EnglishУкраїнськаPolskiFrançaisDeutschEspañol日本語ItalianoΕλληνικά
Read deeply. Every word within reach.
A reading room built for literature — margin notes, an instant dictionary, adjustable translation depth and a theatre-mode narrator, all woven into the page so nothing breaks the spell of the story.
- 01
Margin notes — jot a thought beside any line and find it again, chapter after chapter.
- 03
Glide the depth slider from gentle hints to a full literary translation, line by line.
Listen
- 02
Tap any word for a dictionary card: meaning, pronunciation and the sense it carries here.
- 04
Switch on theatre mode and let a warm narrator read the passage aloud while you follow along.
Spaced repetition
Words that refuse to be forgotten.
Every phrase you save is scheduled to return at the exact moment it is about to slip away — so a year of reading becomes a year of remembering.
Tap, click, or press Enter to flip the card.
Your reading streak
358days studied
Last 365 days
LessMore
FSRS picks the perfect review moment
Our scheduler models the memory of every card and surfaces it the instant recall starts to fade — never too early, never too late.
90%
Long-term recall accuracy
2 min
Average daily review
5×
Fewer reviews than flat decks
Reader Stories
Read by thousands, in their own words.
4.9 average from 12,000+ readers
I finally finished my first Murakami novel in Japanese. Readlume translates a passage only when I'm stuck, so I stay inside the story instead of drowning in a dictionary.
Mei TanakaGraduate student, Kyoto The side-by-side translations feel like a patient tutor sitting beside me. After three months my French reading speed has genuinely doubled, and I actually look forward to it.
Sophie LaurentLifelong learner, Montreal As a translator I'm picky about nuance, and Readlume respects it. The literary tone is preserved, and the spaced-repetition vocabulary has become part of my daily ritual.
Alejandro VegaLiterary translator, Madrid
Why Readlume
Not a translator. A reading companion.
Generic translation tools hand you words. Readlume hands you the whole book — characters intact, context preserved, and the language quietly becoming yours.
CapabilityReadlumeGeneric translators
- Consistent names and recurring terms across an entire novelReadlume: IncludedGeneric translators: Not available
- Spoiler-safe context that never reveals what you haven't readReadlume: IncludedGeneric translators: Not available
- Literary depth control, from plain-spoken to richly stylisedReadlume: IncludedGeneric translators: Not available
- Built-in spaced repetition that turns passages into vocabularyReadlume: IncludedGeneric translators: Not available
- Dual-language reading with the original and translation side by sideReadlume: IncludedGeneric translators: Not available
Every comparison reflects standard machine-translation output without literary tuning.
Start reading deeplyQuestions, answered
Everything you wanted to ask before turning the page
A few honest answers about how Readlume works, what it costs, and how we keep every translation faithful to the original.
01
Which languages does Readlume support?
Readlume translates between more than 40 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese. You can read a book in your target language while keeping the original a tap away, so every passage doubles as a gentle lesson. We add new languages every season based on what readers request most.
02
Where do the books come from, and what formats can I import?
Choose from our curated library of public-domain classics and partner titles, or bring your own. Readlume imports EPUB, PDF, and plain-text files, preserving chapters, footnotes, and your place. Your personal uploads stay private to your account and are never shared or used to train anything.
03
Is Readlume free to use?
Yes. A generous free tier lets you read, translate, and build vocabulary every day at no cost. Reader Premium unlocks unlimited books, side-by-side bilingual view, offline downloads, and advanced study tools. There are no ads, and you can upgrade or cancel anytime.
04
How do you keep the translations accurate?
Our literary models are tuned for tone, idiom, and narrative voice rather than word-for-word substitution, so a metaphor stays a metaphor. Every sentence links back to the original text for instant comparison, and human linguists review our highest-traffic titles. When nuance is ambiguous, we surface alternate readings instead of guessing.
05
Can I read offline and across my devices?
Absolutely. Download any book for fully offline reading on web, iOS, and Android, with translations cached on-device. Your progress, highlights, and saved vocabulary sync automatically the moment you reconnect, so you can pick up exactly where you left off on any screen.
To read a book in its own language is to hear the author breathe — every cadence, every silence, every shade of meaning, kept exactly as it was written.
The last page is the first
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Every book you have ever meant to read, now open in any language you wish to learn. Step inside, and let the reading begin.
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