An eReader
that reads
back.
2 million open titles, classroom-grade read-aloud, and dyslexia-friendly type, in one quiet reading room.
Lexis is an eReader built for adult literacy programs and primary classrooms across Australia. Word-level highlighting that follows the voice. Six narration voices. Full-text search across the open canon. Free for any school, library or community organisation.
Reading practice, quietly.
Lexis is built for the kid who’s nine and embarrassed to read aloud in class, the adult learner returning to literacy at fifty-three, the senior whose eyes can’t do small print anymore. Same surface, very different needs.
The voice follows the word.
Word-level highlighting, sentence-level recap, paragraph-level pause. A natural narration voice reads while the eye learns the shape of the word. Dyslexia-friendly typeface, line-spacing and colour-tint settings ship as defaults, not buried in preferences.
A class-set in one click.
Assign a chapter, a poem, a short story to thirty learners at once. See where attention drops, who finished, who fell behind, without asking for hands. Privacy: aggregate-only by default; class-level or learner-level requires explicit consent.
The open canon , free.
Two million public-domain and CC-licensed titles, indexed and searchable to the line. Run reading clubs, literacy nights, grandparent-reading programs, without a per-seat licence and without surveillance metrics on participants.
Three views of one reading session.
A learner working through a short story, the catalogue search that found it, and the accessibility settings tuned for them.
My shelf
Reading list · class 4B
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people…
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity, but that would be asking too much of fate!
Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.
VoiceAurora · AU
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Reading appearance
Read-aloud
Voice · 6 available
Word-level narration in six voices, with dyslexia-friendly type on by default.
Capabilities.
Nine capabilities. All included on the free not-for-profit tier.
2M titles, full-text search
Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, the Internet Archive, partner publishers and Open Library, indexed to the line. Search returns the passage, not just the book.
Word-level narration
Six natural narration voices. Word-level highlighting follows the speech. Pause-at-punctuation respects commas, full stops, ellipses.
Dyslexia-friendly defaults
OpenDyslexic and Lexie Readable shipped on day one. Adjustable line-height, letter-spacing, page tint and word-ruler. Designed with the Australian Dyslexia Association.
On-device by default
Reading positions, annotations, highlights stay on the device. Class-level analytics require explicit opt-in. No third-party trackers, ever.
Class-set assignment
Assign a chapter to thirty learners at once. See completion, attention drop-off and shared annotations. Per-learner detail only with consent.
Glossary & recap
Tap a word for an age-appropriate definition. End-of-chapter recap in plain English, with three optional questions. No correctness scoring, reading isn’t a quiz.
Works offline
Download a title for offline reading and narration. Cached audio survives an unstable connection, useful in regional schools and on long bus rides.
Highlights, notes, flags
Highlight a passage, write a margin note, flag a word for the teacher. Notes export as Markdown or .pdf. Shared annotations on consent.
Free for not-for-profits
Schools, libraries, community organisations, refugee literacy programs, free with no seat cap. Commercial publishers fund the platform via paid catalogue partnerships.
From sign-up to thirty readers.
How a school librarian goes from a free account to a class-set reading assignment in an afternoon.
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01 · Verify
Apply for the free tier.
Schools, libraries and registered NFPs are verified once via ABN. No credit card; no per-seat metering. Up to 500 learners per organisation by default.
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02 · Browse
Find the title.
Two million titles indexed to the line. Filter by reading age, theme, length, language, audio availability. Build a class library in minutes.
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03 · Assign
Push to a class.
Roll students in by class roster (Microsoft / Google / OneRoster). Assign a chapter, a poem, a short story. Each learner lands on the right page.
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04 · Read
Read with the voice.
Word-level narration. Adjustable speed and voice. Annotations, recap, glossary, all on by default and adjustable per-learner.
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05 · Reflect
See the room.
Aggregate-only attention curves show where the class lingered, where they fell off, where annotations clustered. Learner-level detail on opt-in.