Never lose the thread.
Every speaker in their own color. The scene always in view. An audiobook that reads along. For readers whose minds wander.
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Chapter I
1801.—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's Heaven—and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.
"Mr. Heathcliff?" I said.
A nod was the answer.
"Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts—"
"Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir," he interrupted, wincing. "I should not allow any one to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it—walk in!"
Two Catherines, two Heathcliffs, no confusion.
Wuthering Heights has two Catherines, two Heathcliffs, and houses full of Lintons and Earnshaws. In Chromatics, every speaker keeps one color from the first page to the last, so dialogue-heavy pages stop blurring together and you always know who just said that.
"If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable."
"Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven."
"But it is not for that. I dreamt once that I was there."
"I tell you I won't hearken to your dreams, Miss Catherine! I'll go to bed," I interrupted again.
An audiobook that reads along.
Curated LibriVox recordings, matched to the text page by page. Ruth Golding reads Wuthering Heights; press play and the page you see is the page you hear, at any speed from 1× to 2×. When the page ends, so does the audio.
"May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"
Built for wandering minds.
A quiet banner keeps the scene in view: where you are, when it is, and who is telling the story to whom — even when Cathy tells Nelly, who tells Lockwood, who tells you. Three reading themes, OpenDyslexic among the typefaces, color-coded bookmarks, and your place kept across devices.
Real banners from the book. The deeper the story nests, the more the banner earns its keep.
Keep the lines worth keeping.
Readers kept commonplace books for centuries — Marcus Aurelius, Locke, Woolf. Chromatics gives you one that knows who’s speaking: keep a line and it arrives in that voice’s color, with the scene attached. Now and then a line you kept finds its way back to you. And your lines are yours — connect Notion or Readwise once and every keep syncs there on its own, or copy clean Markdown into Obsidian. More about the commonplace book →
Your commonplace book · 2 lines
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” Catherine · Wuthering Heights
“I cannot live without my life. I cannot live without my soul.” Heathcliff · the Grange
Kept lines stay in their speakers’ colors — months later, you still hear who said them.
The last page gets an ending.
Turn past the final page and the book closes the way a printed one does: a colophon — the whole cast gathered on one page, your reading record beneath them — the date you finished, how long the book kept you company, the lines you kept. Finished books move to a shelf of their own, and the record is yours to take: a CSV that imports straight into StoryGraph or Goodreads, dates included, or a Markdown reading log for Notion and Obsidian.
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