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Silent Book is a calm reading app for Android that knows e-ink screens. On an ONYX BOOX, a Bigme, a Hisense A5 and other e-ink readers that run Android, it switches to its e-ink look by itself: nothing moves, the page is black on white, and the device's own buttons turn the pages.
Settings → Reading → E-ink screen has three choices: Auto, On and Off. It starts on Auto. With the e-ink look on:
On Auto, the e-ink look turns on by itself on readers from ONYX BOOX, Bigme, Meebook, Boyue (Likebook), Hanvon, DASUNG, iReader, Moaan (InkPalm), PocketBook, Ratta Supernote, MobiScribe, HyRead and Viwoods, and on the Hisense A5 and A5 Pro. On any other e-ink device, choose On.
A page turns with:
Silent Book is installed from Google Play. Play's device catalogue lists ONYX BOOX readers, the Bigme HiBreak and Hisense's e-ink phones as supported.
On a BOOX reader, turn on Google Play in the BOOX settings and register the device with Google; then Google Play installs Silent Book as on any Android phone.
Some other Android e-readers come with Google Play or let you turn it on: the PocketBook InkPad Eo, HyRead's Gaze Mini and Gaze Pro XC, the Meebook M7, and Viwoods readers (turn on Google Play in the Viwoods settings). A reader without Google Play, such as a Supernote, cannot install it. Kobo, Kindle and reMarkable readers, and most PocketBook readers, do not run Android at all.
Silent Book opens EPUB, FB2 (zipped too), TXT, PDF, DOCX and HTML books, CBZ comics, manga and manhwa, and audiobooks in MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, OGG, WAV and FLAC. It does not open MOBI, AZW3 or DjVu.
Reading works offline and needs no sign-up, and nothing is shown while you read: the only ad is an optional video you can choose to watch for questions to Assist, the app's helper. The device's own voice can read EPUB, FB2 and text books aloud, and the app speaks 27 languages.
On e-ink the reading ambience (rain, the sea, a campfire, forest wind, snow or a summer night, with an optional piano) plays as sound alone, and every sound is free, with no daily limit and no sign-in. For free books to read on it, see our guide to free e-books.
Install Silent Book from Google Play on your e-reader and open a book: on the readers named above, the e-ink look turns on by itself.
Silent Book opens on Google Play country by country, so it may not be in yours yet.
Yes. Turn on Google Play in the BOOX settings and register the device, then install Silent Book from Google Play. On a BOOX, the e-ink look turns on by itself.
Yes. Its page-turn buttons and the volume keys turn pages, and so do a Bluetooth page turner and a keyboard's Page Down, Page Up, arrow keys and Space. In the paged style, a tap on the right quarter of the page goes forward and on the left quarter goes back.
Open Settings → Reading → E-ink screen. Auto turns it on by itself on the readers Silent Book knows, On turns it on for any other e-ink screen, and Off turns it off.
Not on a Kindle, a Kobo or a reMarkable, and not on most PocketBook readers: they do not run Android. The PocketBook InkPad Eo runs Android with Google Play and can install Silent Book.
No. Silent Book opens EPUB, FB2, TXT, PDF, DOCX and HTML books, CBZ comics and audiobooks, but not MOBI, AZW3 or DjVu.
Yes. Reading is free and needs no sign-up, and every sound is free, with no daily limit and no sign-in. Nothing is shown while you read: the only ad is an optional video you can choose to watch for questions to Assist, the app's helper.
ONYX BOOX, Bigme, Hisense, PocketBook, Kobo, Kindle, Chromebook and the other device names on this page are trademarks of their owners; Silent Book is not affiliated with them.