SciRead: Science on the Go

SciRead turns free health books and research articles into something you can listen to. Pick a book, press Play, and a clear voice reads it to you, one sentence at a time, while you cook, walk, travel or rest your eyes. WHY SCIREAD Good health information is often long and hard to read on a small screen. SciRead makes it easy: listen to it like an audiobook, or read along while the voice marks each sentence for you. It is made for patients and families, carers, students, nurses and anyone who wants to understand health and science better. NIH BOOKS • Over 1,300 free books from the NCBI Bookshelf of the U.S. National Library of Medicine • Topics such as health research, care and policy, food and nutrition, the environment, veterans' health and public health • Browse by topic, search by title, or start with a "Good first listen" • Every book is free, and its licence and credit are shown RESEARCH ARTICLES • Millions of free full-text research papers from PubMed Central and Europe PMC • Search any subject, or start from topics like heart, cancer, diabetes, mental health, sleep, food, ageing and genes • Hear a paper's summary and sections, without the reference lists LISTEN YOUR WAY • Choose from your phone's English voices: American, British, Indian, Australian and more • Set the speed from 0.5x to 2x, and the tone of the voice • Back and Next by sentence, 15 seconds back or forward, or jump to any part • A clear Stop button, and a sleep timer from 5 to 60 minutes or to the end of the part • Keeps reading with the screen off or while you use other apps; control it from the notification, the lock screen or your headphones READ ALONG • Switch from Listen to Read to see the whole page • The sentence being read is marked, and the page follows the voice • Tap any sentence to hear it from there • Change the text size, the page colour (light, sepia or dark), the font and the line spacing YOUR SHELF • Save books and articles for later • SciRead remembers where you stopped in every book • Sign in with Google or with email, and your shelf and places follow you to your other devices FOUR DESIGNS • Elements (free): bright, colourful topic tiles • Voiceprint: a dark design with the voice drawn as it reads • Highlighter: a clean page with a yellow marker that follows the voice • Classic: black and white, like a fine book On a tablet, the player sits beside the books, so you can browse while you listen. FREE, WITH ADS SciRead is free and shows ads. SciRead Premium removes all ads and unlocks the three extra designs, for 3 months or 1 year. You can also watch a short video for an hour without big ads. Sources of information used in this app: • NCBI Bookshelf: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/ • PubMed Central: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ • Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org/ Privacy policy: https://www.omeletteinc.com/pubmedhub-privacy.html SciRead is a reading and listening tool. It does not give medical advice; talk to a doctor about your own health.