Grange Park · Nelly → Lock. · 1784
A read-along app for grown-up books
Press play. This is a real page of Wuthering Heights as the app shows it — the recording plays exactly this page and stops where the page stops.
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“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!”
Your shelf · How it works
What read-along means here
The audiobook and the text are the same object. Press play and the recording starts at the top of the page you are looking at, and stops at the bottom — turn the page and it continues. Speed is yours, from 1× to 2×. Eyes and ears take the same path through the book, which is precisely what keeps a wandering attention on the rails: when one slips, the other holds your place.
One thing should be said plainly: most read-along apps are for children learning to read. This is not one of them. The catalog is Brontë, Dostoevsky, Gaskell, Hamsun — classic novels for adult readers who want to get through serious books and keep the thread. The recordings are complete LibriVox performances by readers people seek out by name, and every speaker on the page keeps their own color, which no audiobook app does at all.
Your shelf · Questions
The questions people actually ask
Which books have read-along audio?
Today: Wuthering Heights (read by Ruth Golding), North and South (Ophelia Darcy), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Mark F. Smith), and Hunger (Greg W.) — complete recordings, matched page by page. The list grows steadily; Crime and Punishment is next.
Does it work offline?
An internet connection is recommended. Much of your current book stays cached on the device, but offline reading is not a supported feature yet — when it is, it will say so here.
Is it on iPhone and Android?
iPhone and iPad today, free through TestFlight. Android is in development — leave an email below and we will write to you once, when it ships.
Can I change the narration speed?
Yes: 1×, 1.2×, 1.5×, 1.7×, and 2×. The page sync follows whatever speed you choose, and so does the demo above, if you want to try it now.
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Where to point it first
Wuthering Heights is the showcase — featured now, free in full, with the audiobook included. If you already pay for synced reading elsewhere, the immersion reading page does the comparison politely.
The demo above is the actual product. The rest of the book works the same way.
Start reading freeFree on iPhone and iPad, currently through TestFlight. On Android? Leave an email.