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A LIBRARY THAT FEELS LIKE YOURS

A little more room to read.

A private shelf for books, comics and documents. Read at your pace, keep your place, and return to your library wherever you are.

  • PDF · EPUB · Comics
  • Local-first
  • No account
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Read a sample ↓Install on a device →
Your books. Your pace.
YOUR LIBRARY

Sela Books

A private shelf. An uninterrupted read. Books, progress and collections stay on your device.

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Open web appInstall guide ↗
Install on your device
  1. 1Open Sela Books, then tap Install Sela when the app offers it.
  2. 2Chrome, Edge, Opera and Samsung Internet show their own install prompt when this browser supports it.
  3. 3On iPhone or iPad, open the Share menu in Safari and choose Add to Home Screen. On macOS Safari, choose File → Add to Dock.
  4. 4Firefox offers a home-screen shortcut on Android. On desktop, use its Web Apps option where available or bookmark Sela.
FOR YOUR WEBSITE

Sela Viewer

The same reading tools, on your website. One clean interface on every screen. Embed inline or open fullscreen.

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Use CDNIntegration guide ↗

Works with your stack

Use the same Viewer from plain HTML, CI3, Laravel, React, Vue, Svelte, Astro and other hosts. Bootstrap and Tailwind are optional.

  • HTML
  • CodeIgniter
  • Laravel
  • Bootstrap
  • React
  • Vue
  • Astro
  • Tailwind CSS

THE READING DESK

Open a book. Try your own.

Everything stays in your browser.
Bobby Fajar Christian · 2026
Book information

A return to an old house, a recording that should not exist, and the people left between memory and distance.

50 pages · Indonesian · Sela sample edition · CC BY 4.0
Original PDF ↗

A SIMPLE WORKFLOW · FOR YOUR SITE

Shape your reading experience

Choose a file, set the way it opens, and copy a working setup.

Installation and integration guide ↗

FIND YOUR READING RHYTHM

Four ways to read.

PDF engine loads only when you read.
  1. 1Choose a sample or your own file.
  2. 2Pick how you want to read.
  3. 3Open it. Copy the setup if you want it on your site.

MAKE IT YOURS

Live configuration.

More reading settings

Ctrl + wheel or trackpad pinch zooms; normal scrolling stays natural. Press ? inside the reader for shortcuts. EPUB uses chapter-based text reading.

Your website setup

Use a pinned release when you need a fixed build. The current build follows this site's deployments.

For your own file, upload it to a URL your website can access and replace the sample URL in this snippet.

PDF, EPUB, comics and text have optional reading tools: contents, search, narration and notes. FB2 is text-only; DjVu uses an external GPL-2.0 decoder.