Compendium Audiobooks vs PillowBook Reader

Compendium turns the great books into audiobooks Dostoevsky, Plato, Seneca, Nietzsche, Mill, and more narrated in full and ready to listen anywhere. Start any book's first chapter for free, no account required. FEATURES - A growing library of 690+ audiobooks, organized by category (philosophy, adventure, aesthetics, and more) - Chapter-by-chapter playback with adjustable playback speed - Background audio and lock-screen / Control Center playback controls - Picks up exactly where you left off, across sessions - No sign-up needed to start listening ACCOUNTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS Create a free account to unlock the first chapters of every book, pick one full book free, and save your progress across devices. Full-library listening, account and subscription management happen on compendium.audio. Compendium is built for readers who want to experience the foundational texts of literature and philosophy the way they were meant to be heard.

Read your own books, quietly and comfortably PillowBook is a local-first reader for TXT and EPUB, designed to make long reading sessions feel calm and personal. No account is required, there are no ads, and you don’t need to upload your books to the developer’s servers. Your books, reading position, bookmarks, and reading history are stored on your device by default, so you can keep reading offline. MAKE IT YOUR READING SPACE • Enjoy a clean, comfortable interface that keeps the focus on your books • Choose light, dark, or system appearance, change accent colors, and pick an app icon to match your mood • Select a reading palette, adjust page brightness, or use your own image as the reading background • Fine-tune fonts, text size, character spacing, line spacing, paragraph spacing, and margins READ YOUR WAY • Switch between horizontal and vertical text • Turn pages, scroll continuously, use a lifelike page curl, or let pages advance automatically • Thoughtful multilingual typesetting with support for ruby text, footnotes, and EPUB images • Enjoy two-page reading in landscape on iPad, like an open book LISTEN WHEN YOUR EYES NEED A BREAK • Read aloud with system voices on iPhone and iPad • Voices already downloaded to your device can work offline • Choose a voice, adjust the speed, and set a sleep timer • Listening stays in sync with the text, so you return to the same place KEEP YOUR LIBRARY YOURS • Import TXT and EPUB from Files, the share sheet, or a browser on the same Wi-Fi • Automatically detect common text encodings and chapter structure • Track reading progress and time, add bookmarks, and search entire books • Favorite or archive books; protect the Vault entrance with Face ID or your device passcode • Multilingual interface support PillowBook does not provide or sell ebooks, and it does not support DRM-protected EPUB files. Please import only files you have the right to use. The free version can store up to five books in the library. If you need more, a one-time purchase unlocks Unlimited Library. No subscription.