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Type

Typeface Size Line height Measure Alignment Hyphenate split long words across the end of a line with a hyphen, so lines fill more evenly — most useful with Justified, where it closes up the wide gaps between words

Layout this book

Right to left For every book. Mirrors Taper's own bars, panels and page-turn zones, for reading Hebrew, Arabic or Persian. The books themselves are untouched — each already reads in its own direction.

Skin 1 / 2 / 3

A skin changes presentation and adds framing around the text. The author's words are never altered.

Theme

More themes

E-paper mode maximum contrast, no animation, large targets

Read by candlelight

Everything in this section is decoration. None of it changes the book, the companion, or anything Taper remembers — switch it all off and the app is exactly as it was.

Warmer paper takes the blue out of the page, and only the page Warmth Pooled light dims the edges and leaves the middle bright, the way one flame on a desk lights a book Depth Let it flicker the light leans and gutters, slowly, the way a flame does. Turn it off if movement while you read bothers you. Light it yourself the page starts dark. Strike the match, then light the taper — it burns for about an hour and dims as it goes. Turn this off at any time to get the page back. The night library a monastery on a hillside, about 1890. Brother Davis keeps the night watch, and reads. When a taper burns out he decides what to do with the rest of his night — and puts the light out before bed. Words only: it changes nothing about the book or the companion.

Reading aloud

Reading companion

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