What's New

We have improved the app's user interface and performance in this version.

App Description

This app combines Herman Melville's novels, short stories and poems with professional human narrations.

It enables read-along feature: highlighted text synced with human narration.

With read along feature, you can enjoy your favorite books by reading or listening or both reading and listening.

Long-press a word and tap 'Play' to activate read-along feature.

● Novels
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
- Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
- Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
- Mardi: and a Voyage Thither
- Redburn: His First Voyage
- White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War
- Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
- Bartleby, the Scrivener
- The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles
- Benito Cereno
- The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
- Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
- Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
- Billy Budd, Sailor

● Short Stories
- The Piazza
- The Apple-Tree Table
- The Bell-Tower
- The Chase
- The Lightning-Rod Man
- Rounding Cape Horn

● Poems
- 63 selected poems from "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" and "John Marr and Other Sailors"

● Herman Melville's quotes
- Herman Melville's famous quotes
- Read 10 quotes daily
- Bookmark feature
- Share a quote

● Other features:
- Read-along feature: highlighted text synced with human narration
- You can read the book and play the audio along or you can play the audio only
- Night mode
- Adjust font size, font style
- Search feature
- Voice search
- Bookmark feature
- Built-in dictionary

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • December 01, 2020 Initial release
  • March 27, 2024 New version 2.0