Reading, kept whole.
Reader's Friend began with a small frustration: the best thing about a book — the thought it sparked at 11pm, the line you underlined twice — was always the first thing to disappear. Apps counted our pages and forgot our minds.
We're a product of Life in Stereo, a small company that believes the things we make should feel like paper and ink, not screens and dashboards. The name gives us our guiding idea — two channels in harmony. For reading, those channels are the two halves of the act itself: the private one, where you and the page are alone, and the shared one, where a book becomes something you talk about.
So Reader's Friend holds both. A quiet, well-lit place to track what you're reading and write in the margin — and, when you want it, a room where a handful of friends read the same book at the same pace and argue about the footnotes. Warm channel and cool channel. Your own thoughts, and the conversations worth keeping.
“A book you've annotated is a conversation you can return to. We just wanted to keep the conversation.”
We're a long way from finished — but we're building it the way we'd want to read: slowly, with care, and in good company. If that sounds like your kind of thing, we'd love to have you.