# Read · OmniGet Docs - URL: https://getomniget.com/docs/read - Updated: 2026-10-02 - OmniGet 1.0.0 > Free, open-source yt-dlp GUI for Windows, macOS and Linux. Paste a link to save video, audio and files from 1,000+ sites, or run AI coding agents. --- Superpowers # Read Read is a reading room inside OmniGet for your ebooks, PDFs, comics and manga. It keeps the library, opens every book in its own reader, follows manga series for new chapters, and converts or sends books to your e-reader. ## Where it is Open **Superpowers** in the sidebar and choose the **Read** card. To hide it, go to **Settings › Integrations › Read** and turn off **Show Read**. Turning it off hides Read and stops its library server. Read is on by default. The left column of Read has two parts. The top part has **Home**, **Library**, **Manga & comics**, **Updates** and **Browse**, followed by your **Shelves** once you have one. The bottom part has **Notes & words**, **Downloads**, **Statistics**, **Convert & send** and **Settings**. ## How to use it ### Add your books 1. Open Read. On an empty library, choose **Add a folder**, or drop books, comics or folders on the window. 2. OmniGet scans the folder. Books, comics and PDFs in it are added and kept up to date. 3. To add more folders later, open **Settings › Library** inside Read and choose **Add folder**. Removing a folder takes its books out of the library. The files stay on your disk. ### Read a book 1. Open **Home** and pick a book under **Continue reading**, or find it in **Library**. 2. Choose **Read** (or **Continue** when you have started it). 3. Use the toolbar for **Contents**, **Search**, **Highlights**, **Bookmark**, **Read aloud** and **Reading settings**. 4. Select text to **Highlight**, **Underline**, add a **Note**, **Copy**, **Quote**, **Define**, **Translate** or **Explain** it. The **Reading assistant** answers questions about the book using only the text up to where you are, so nothing gets spoiled. It offers **Story so far**, **Summarize chapter**, **Characters**, **Quiz me** and **Ask**, and needs an [AI provider](https://getomniget.com/docs/ai-provider). Comics and manga open in the comic reader, with the **Reading mode** set to **Right to left**, **Left to right**, **Vertical** or **Webtoon**, single or double **Pages**, and a **Fit** to screen, width or height. ### Organize the library - **Library** shows **Everything**, **Books**, **Comics & manga** or **PDF**, as a **Grid** or a **List**, sorted by title, author, series, date added, last read, progress, rating or size. Turn on **Group by series** to stack a series. - A book’s page has **Edit** for its metadata, **Find metadata** to look it up online, **Change cover**, **Status** and **Rating**. - **Save a web page** turns an article, a fanfic (FanFicFare) or a web novel (lightnovel-crawler) into a book. - **Delete files** moves the files to the Read trash folder. **Remove from library** keeps them on disk. ### Use shelves 1. Select books in **Library**, then choose **Add to shelf**, or open **Settings › Shelves** inside Read. 2. Choose **New shelf** for a hand-picked list, or **New smart shelf** for a list that fills itself. 3. For a smart shelf, choose whether books must match **all rules** or **any rule**, then **Add rule** (for example, **Author** **contains** a name, or **Days since read** **more than** a value). Shelves show up in the left column under **Shelves**. ### Follow manga and comics 1. Open **Browse**, pick a catalog and search it, or use **Search all** to search every source of one kind at once. 2. Open a series and choose **Follow**. 3. New chapters show up in **Updates** and on **Home** under **New chapters**. Use **Check for new chapters** to check now. 4. On a series page, choose **Download**, **Download unread** or **Download all**, and turn on **Download new chapters automatically** if you want. 5. With chapters downloaded, **Make a volume (EPUB)** joins them into one book in your library. **Move to another source** moves a series to a different catalog. Read marks follow it, matched by chapter number. ### Notes and words **Notes & words** lists every highlight, note and bookmark from all books, with a search box. **Words** keeps the words you saved from the dictionary, and **Export for Anki** saves them for Anki. To keep notes outside the app, open **Settings › Notes** inside Read and set a **Live notes folder**. Read writes one Markdown file per book there (an Obsidian vault works) and rewrites it each time you highlight. ### Convert and send 1. Open **Convert & send**, or right-click books in the library and choose **Convert**. 2. On **Convert**, pick the target in **Convert to** and the **Converter**. **Built in** handles TXT, Markdown and HTML to EPUB, EPUB to Kobo kepub, and comics to CBZ or fixed-layout EPUB. Other formats use calibre, KCC or pandoc when they are installed. 3. On **Send to device**, plug in a Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook or a device with KOReader and choose **Send**, or send by **E-mail (Send to Kindle)**. 4. **Tools** shows which converters were found on this computer and lets you point to one with **Choose file**. ### Downloads and statistics **Downloads** has three lists: **Chapters**, **Books** and **Conversions**, with **Cancel all** and **Clear finished**. **Statistics** shows reading time, streaks, books finished, chapters read, **Reading activity**, **When you read**, your most read books and authors, and the formats you read. You can set a **yearly goal** for books and a goal for **Minutes a day**. ## Options These live under **Settings** inside Read, in the tabs **Library**, **Shelves**, **Sources**, **Updates**, **Sync & sharing**, **E-mail**, **Notes** and **Backup & import**. | Option | What it does | Default | | --- | --- | --- | | **Library folders** | Folders whose books, comics and PDFs are added and kept up to date. | | | **Where downloads go** | Folder for books and chapters you download in Read. Change it with **Change**. | | | **Organize files** | Moves books into folders named from their metadata. Use **Preview** first. | | | **Find duplicates** | Lists books that appear more than once. | | | **Catalogs** | Adds an OPDS catalog (Calibre-Web, Komga, Kavita, Stump, another OmniGet) or a Suwayomi server you run. | None | | **Source repositories** | Installs sources from a repository URL. Each file is checked against its checksum. | None | | **Check followed series** | How often Read looks for new chapters. | Every 12 h | | **Delete downloaded chapters after reading** | Removes chapters you have read, keeping a few behind. | Never | | **Download chapters ahead while reading** | Fetches the next chapters while you read. | Off | | **KOReader sync** | Keeps your place in step with KOReader through a sync server. | Off | | **Trackers** | Sends the chapters you read in followed series to AniList or MangaUpdates. | Off | | **Share the library on your network** | Lets e-readers on the same Wi-Fi browse and download your books over OPDS. | Off, port 8580 | | **E-mail (Send to Kindle)** | Your SMTP account for mailing books. The password is kept in the system keychain. | Not set | | **Live notes folder** | One Markdown file per book, rewritten as you highlight. | Off | | **Backup** | **Export backup** and **Restore backup** for progress, ratings, shelves, highlights, followed series and read chapters. | | | **Import from Mihon / Tachiyomi** | Reads a `.tachibk` backup. MangaDex series come in with their read chapters. | | ### Built-in catalogs Read ships with Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and Open Library for public-domain books, and MangaDex and MANGA Plus for manga published with the rights holders. **Show adult content** in **Browse** is off unless you turn it on. Note OmniGet ships no sources for unlicensed content. You are responsible for the sources you add and for respecting copyright where you live. ## Shortcuts | Where | Keys | What they do | | --- | --- | --- | | Read | / | Focus the search box | | Read | `⌥←` (macOS) / `Alt+←` | Go back | | Book reader | ← → | Turn pages | | Book reader | `⌘F` (macOS) / `Ctrl+F` | Search this book | | Book reader | `⌘B` (macOS) / `Ctrl+B` | Bookmark | | Book reader | T N S | Contents, highlights, reading settings | | Book reader | R | Read aloud | | Book reader | F | Full screen | | Book reader | `esc` (macOS) / `Esc` | Close the open panel, then the book | | Comic reader | ← → | Turn pages | | Comic reader | D | Single or double pages | | Comic reader | M | Next reading mode | | Comic reader | \[ \] | Previous or next chapter | | Comic reader | H | Hide the bars | ## Common problems ### A CBR or CB7 comic does not open The reader opens CBZ archives. Convert the file to CBZ first in **Convert & send**. ### Converting to MOBI, AZW3, PDF or DOCX fails Those conversions need calibre. Install it, then check **Convert & send › Tools**; if it shows **Not found**, use **Choose file** to point to it. ### Read aloud is missing Read aloud uses the system’s speech voices. When the system webview has none, Read shows “Read aloud isn’t available in this system’s webview.” ### A series can be read but not downloaded Some sources only allow reading in the app. The series page says “This source can be read in the app but not downloaded.” [Previous**← OmniTube**](https://getomniget.com/docs/omnitube) [Next**Telegram →**](https://getomniget.com/docs/telegram)