Arcanum Reader

Support

Email support@arcanum-reader.app, or open an issue on GitHub. A few answers first.

What do I need?

A Grimmory or Booklore server you can reach from your iPad, and an account on it. The app does not come with books and does not host any.

Signing in

Enter the server address as you would in a browser, for example https://books.example.net, then your username and password. The app keeps a session on the device and refreshes it automatically; sign out from Settings.

Sync

Reading position, highlights and notes are saved on the device first and pushed to your server right away. If you are offline they are queued and sent the next time the app is open with a connection. Highlights made in Arcanum appear in your server's web reader at the same spot, and the other way round.

Highlights and notes

Long-press a word to select text. The system menu offers Copy, Look Up, Translate and Share; Highlight and Add Note sit next to them. Tap an existing highlight to change its colour or style, edit the note, or delete it.

Read aloud

Tap Listen in the reader. Arcanum uses the voices built into iPadOS; download higher-quality ones under Settings › Accessibility › Spoken Content › Voices on the iPad, and pick them from the voice button in the player bar.

Surprise Me

Draws one unread book, weighted by the genres you finish and rate highly, with a reason. "Try another" sets the book aside for sixty days; "Forget Surprise Me Skips" in Settings brings everything back. With your own Anthropic API key under Settings › AI Services, Claude makes the pick and you can tell it your mood.

Bindery

Under Settings › Bindery, enter your Bindery address and its API key (Bindery's Settings › General › Security). A "+ Request" button then appears on the Library tab. An admin key adds and searches for the book at once; a requester key files a request for an admin to approve.

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