Reading, at the pace of attention.

A page of text is a fixed object. Attention is not. Some sentences want to be lingered on. Others want to be moved through. The Reader shows one word at a time, at a tempo you choose, and lets the prose run at the pace your reading actually wants.

It's a small device that sits next to a coffee on a desk. It has its own screen, its own battery, and a single dial. The companion app at reckon.works/reader handles the rest: pair, push a book, watch the device receive it.

How it works

Pair once. Push books from any browser.

Connect the Reader to Chrome (or any Web Bluetooth browser) once. The companion app at reckon.works/reader shows the device library, lets you drop in EPUB, PDF, or plain-text files, and pushes the converted book over Bluetooth in seconds. No accounts, no cloud, no sync service.

Once a book is on the device, you can leave the browser. The Reader holds the book, the position, and the reading state. Plug it back in only when you want a new title or want to see what's been read.

Words appear one at a time, at a tempo you set, with the optical reading point centred for the eye. Reading happens at the speed your attention can hold, not faster, not slower.

The Reader remembers exactly where you stopped and resumes there next time, without prompts or sign-in screens. Once paired and loaded, it's offline-first: the browser is for management, the device is for reading.

Why we built it

A small object, on the boundary of attention.

The Reader is the studio's own answer to a question we keep asking out loud in workshops: what does a tool look like when it doesn't compete with everything else on your screen for your attention? A dedicated object, a single dial, a fixed purpose.

The hardware is small enough to forget. The interaction is small enough to keep. Built and used inside Reckon. Studio, and shipped because we'd rather more people had one.

Try the companion

The browser app is live now.

If you have a Reck Reader nearby, the companion app at reckon.works/reader will pair to it. If you don't, you can still load a book and convert it to see how it'd look on the device. Chrome or Edge on the desktop, today.

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Want a Reck Reader of your own?

Early units in 2026.

Limited first run. lets@reckon.works.

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