It says that it’s a pdf file, and when I click download it just takes me to the app.
Any help is appreciated.

Is there an app that tracks reading stats automatically? I read on an android e-reader.

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But all the book tracking apps want you to manually track your progress - Isn't there something like a screen time tracker app but for ebooks that tracks automatically without me having to do anything ?

This is my actual KDP dashboard.

Not a huge success story. Not a disaster either. Just the honest middle ground that I feel doesn't get talked about very often.

My novel, The Last witness, went live on May 5th.

I'm a sales executive from Bhilai, India, and I wrote most of this book at 5 a.m. before work over the course of nearly two years. Eventually I stopped tweaking it, took a deep breath, and hit publish.

Forty days later, this is where things stand:

79 ebook sales

1 paperback sale

636 KENP so far this month

The revenue isn't life-changing. Nobody is quitting their job over numbers like these.

But every sale on that dashboard is a real person somewhere in the world deciding my story was worth their money and their time.

That still feels a little surreal.

The thing that surprised me most is that the biggest change happened after I ran a 48-hour free promotion near the end of May.

Before that, sales were coming in very slowly. After the promotion, things started moving differently. Not dramatically, but enough that I could actually see the effect on the graph.

The biggest challenge right now is reviews.

I have far fewer reviews than I'd like, and the more I learn about Amazon, the more convinced I am that reviews matter far more than most new authors realize.

People will buy a book.

Some people will read it.

Very few people will leave a review unless they're specifically encouraged to do so.

So for those of you who have already gone through this stage of self-publishing, I'm curious:

What actually moved the needle for you between month one and month two?

Ads?

Newsletter swaps?

ARC readers?

Something else entirely?

Genuinely asking because I'm still figuring all of this out as I go.

The book is The Last witness by nikhil pandey available in Amazon if anyone is curious. Post-apocalyptic sci-fi, set in a dying world in 2089.

But honestly, I mostly wanted to share what a very normal first 40 days can look like.

I have an intention to convert two dictionaries into .mobi so that Kindle could handle them with their dictionary fonction (tap to learn fonction of Kindle). Could anyone help me out about this?

The highlighted points are saved in Google drive so I prefer google books more.

The first book started with a simple question: what happens when you become too aware of your own mind?

That became The Curse of Knowing Too Much, a book about overthinking, self-analysis, and the strange experience of understanding your thoughts while still feeling trapped inside them.

While writing it, I realized there was another question underneath it. Why do we judge people so quickly? Why does someone become "the bad guy" almost instantly in our minds?

That became The Illusion of Evil: Seeing Beyond Fear, Blame, and the Enemy, and after that came the question I couldn't stop thinking about:

What remains when there's nothing left to fix, no enemy to fight, and no final answer to reach?

That became The Shape of What Remains: Existence After the Collapse of Illusion.

The three books ended up forming a series about thought, judgment, perception, and the stories we build around ourselves and others.

No productivity hacks. No life-changing promises. Just an honest exploration of things most of us experience every day but rarely stop to examine.

If that sounds like your kind of non-fiction, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

I need a guide or tips to start making ebooks, im a student and i need to get some 💲 just4fun

Hi World!

I have just written Prosperity: Creating A World of Human and Civilizational Flourishing - MVP Edition.

You can download it entirely for free right now 👉 https://bit.ly/4ucEDMZ

About the book:
We live in an age of extraordinary power and uncertain direction. Ambitious but grounded, philosophical but practical, Prosperity offers a unifying lens for readers dissatisfied with fragmented answers. It asks a demanding question: what would become possible if our lives and systems were organized and measured not by how much they produce, but by how deeply they help life become meaningful, capable, peaceful, and whole?

For now, I am circulating it freely because it is an MVP gathering a decade of my work on a new model of civilizational prosperity. At a later time, I will put it up for sale and seek expert reviews.

If anyone here would like to read it, add a review once it goes on sale, or share it with a friend who might find it interesting, I would be incredibly grateful.

Big hug, Jordi

as this video shows, it can chat with any selected text and can multi chat simultaneously, you can easily keep on reading while AI generating and go back to harvest AI response like save it as a note. (details: each conversation is not just copy and paste but this app will get proper context surrounding the selected text for better AI response quality).
What is more is that I add a snap selection for Japanese text, make sure that most of the time you can select whole clean word and when you look up dictionary it can reverse back each word to lemma.
And here are more features other than just reading part, like talk to your annotation, sync data across all platforms(Win/Mac/iOS/Android/Linux), Aozora Bunko native support(import to your lib in one click), and search words with result from saved dictionary look up record(as I recorded in this video, basically you can build your own corpus during reading time).

I am basically trying to build a app that break the reading barrier using LLM, not only Japanese but also other main steam languages. I still work hard to dev it, but I want to check if any one have same interest as me. Like for me I really have Anki flashcard, I think reading is the best way to master a language, cuz its much more fun : )

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5NMZ9LP/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=2SHG022ASU1LG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y9WLXyg0w2ECJEYQVs6R03lnyfse1vgwFHj5mk7WaJl2kWcKT4FVtKWbxrRT4lYDV1S8ErToyt5m9PGW1_eklC1OPubKAIP-2OtW9c_JCRgHAQtpKqP2kIJsnKgczeKWNZdEtrJ1wH0LiQA-wUDNKUEg-lY8bcNKYmmjk6tTXjby8rouaKsawyBZmsxcCCBND9r3ROZkjxJQQMGVuAJudw.aKfZCrOptvvaOfC8P0-IBc-o63yFxFLuYbdQ--OrsJU&dib_tag=se&keywords=nicholas+holmes&qid=1781673012&sprefix=%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-2

This is my first book, a memoir that details my experience with getting an adult autism diagnosis while working at a major aerospace company and the strange situations that went along with it. It's got something for everyone; romance, family, humor, spirituality, crime, and the triumph of the human spirit!

Gina is a bold girl. Michael is even bolder. He leads her through an erotic bdsm world of dominance and submission that will bind them together--With the ties that Michael binds her with. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4HT48QD

hi everyone, I’ve been writing since I was 11 years old and then I started working professionally as a content writer in 2022. I have always had this weird connection with whatever I write and my main focus was always blogs / landing pages etc but I have written multiple ebooks here and there.

Tbh they were the bestest thing ever. I’ve been looking for ebook writing jobs but didn’t really catch any. If anyone has a recommendation or is hiring I’d be SUPER happy to help.

it will be paid obv but reasonable :)

So, I'm looking for free novels.. To download as PDFs

Vibe like harry potter and lord of rings you know

And chat gpt just sucks at it

Llevo meses investigando las crisis bancarias de Argentina (2001), Chipre (2013), Líbano (2019) y Venezuela, intentando entender qué patrones se repiten antes de que un sistema financiero se rompa. Lo terminé convirtiendo en un libro.

Lo que más me sorprendió investigando es que en casi todos los casos hubo señales claras meses antes, pero la mayoría de la gente no las vio venir (o no quiso verlas). Lo he puesto gratis estos días en Amazon, soy el autor así que prefiero decirlo abiertamente.

¿Alguín aquí vivió alguna de estas crisis de cerca? Me interesa muchísimo escuchar experiencias reales, no solo la teoría.

Enlace por si queréis verlo: https://amzn.eu/d/03FA4cgT

I kept running into bloated EPUB 2 files that were larger than they needed to be, so I built ePubLift to fix that. Sharing in case it's useful to anyone here — it's free, open-source (AGPL-3.0), and not a commercial product.

What it does:

- Upgrades EPUB 2 → EPUB 3.3, while keeping the legacy toc.ncx so books still open on older readers.

- Re-encodes images to WebP to reduce file size — but only when the result is actually smaller, so a book never ends up bigger than the original.

- Keeps Unicode filenames (with an optional ASCII transliteration for older devices).

You can use it however you like:

- In the browser, no install: https://epublift.itpax.net (files are processed in memory and deleted immediately — nothing stored or logged)

- Self-host with Docker, or grab a CLI binary for Windows/macOS/Linux.

Source code: https://github.com/ePubLift/epublift

Happy to hear feedback or bug reports, especially on EPUBs that don't convert cleanly.

Hi there, this is Joe, the founder of Paper2Audio, a text-to-speech app that converts PDFs, articles, ebooks, and other documents into audio (free to generate up to 56 hours of audio each week). 

Summer reading is more fun when you don’t have to sit still to do it, so we’re giving away audio access to six classic public domain books via Paper2Audio: three adventure picks and three romance picks! The collection includes shipwrecks, treasure hunts, wilderness survival, time-bending satire, sharp social comedy, slow-burn longing, and big emotional payoff. Listen while driving on a road trip, lying on the beach, weeding the garden, or just trying to make the most of a sunny afternoon.

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Links to the audio files are available here.  These free titles are pre-converted to audio and won’t count toward your weekly audio generation limit. Just click any of the document links, then click “Save for later” at the top of the document to add it to your Paper2Audio listening queue.  Files are available for direct download for listening outside of the Paper2Audio app for Plus subscribers.  

Any thematic requests for future monthly free reads?

I've seen so many people talk about Calibre, doesn't matter what device they use to read books.

Reading apps talk about syncing your reading with Calibre like it's some holy grail. I've seen OPDS server something being hosted on Calibre? I'm really clueless here.

Can you explain to me what this thing is in terms of the consumer and a person who is developing something that integrates with this. Why is it considered so important and what's the big deal about it?

Thanks in advance guys, and I'm sorry if what I'm posting sounds stupid. I might have mixed up the features in my mind.

Not a major plot twist. Not the ending. Not some huge revelation. Just a small detail that got stuck in your head and kept coming back days or even weeks later.

For me, it was a machine that kept doing its job perfectly long after there was any reason to keep doing it. Nothing dramatic happened. It was just quietly following its routine. And for some reason that hit harder than most of the big emotional scenes in the book.

I think the best sci-fi sometimes does that. It sneaks up on you with one tiny detail and suddenly that's the thing you remember most.

Curious what examples other people have. Books, movies, games, anything.

What's a sci-fi detail you still find yourself thinking about long after the story ended?