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Pablo Laurino
Volpe — A web reader for PDF & EPUB to enrich your publications
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Volpe is the best reader for PDF & EPUB files. You can use Volpe to highlight the text, create summaries, translate the text, create citations and even transform the text to voice.
Use Volpe to share your documents, books, magazines and newspapers now!
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Anna Filou
Looks cool but I've got a question: do I need to publish PDFs on your platform or can I just embed a widget on a website that allows users to read the PDF using your viewer on said site? Also, I need to create an account just to view the demo? No, thanks; come on 😕 A couple of typos on the homepage: - "enjoyo" instead of enjoy - "your readers won’t interact ever with your original files" should be 'won't ever interact'
Franco Gilio
Maker
Hi @anna_0x ! thank you for pointing out those typos, we've fixed them. And sorry about the demo asking for an account, it's now openly available as it should've been from the beginning. Please give it a try :) We love the idea of embedding a widget of the publication in any site, it's not available right now but it'll be in the future
David Ryan
Congrats on the release. I dig the intention. You might enjoy digging into what Read did a few years ago. They were a couple of great founders in our cohort at the NUMA accelerator in Paris. Their thesis is super useful reading in your space, and I think you will resonate with some of the points: https://medium.com/swlh/five-the...
Franco Gilio
Maker
@davedri Thanks for sharing David, it's indeed interesting and I share their vision. We are now more than 3 years later and EPUB has still a long way to go, we're committed to help push it forward
David Ryan
@fgili0 Realistically do you think EPUB will make it to mass market utility? Especially up against the like of the Amazon Kindle? How do you feel you will win in this challenge, given the historic resistance? Also, what do you think will truly make people defer from their default file readers and go all-in on a new reading app? It seems a challenge even harder than launching a new podcast app given the market's attention isn't on personal reading right now.
Franco Gilio
Maker
We believe you deserve a better experience when reading PDFs and EPUBs and Volpe is our take on it. We have a lot in the pipeline, but you can give it a try today https://demo.publica.la/reader/t... Please, share your feedback!
Pablo Laurino
Maker
It's time to reinvent PDF. We created Volpe to help people share their publications and offer a better and interactive experience effortlessly.
María Cecilia Chebel

I want to use it with books I've already downloaded, how can I do that?

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The onboarding is really useful and to be able to open it at will it's very considerate

Cons:

Bookmarks, and I saw this in other comment too

Luis Vaccaro

Open big size and complex pdf’s in just a seconds. That’s not it all, even enriched it with interactive tools. Text to voice works incredible!

Pros:

Amaizing, the fastest online reader ever.

Cons:

None

Alfagrama Ediciones II
Felicitaciones por la aplicación pero en la misma linea del comentario de anna sería mucho mejor si se comercializa como aplicación independiente de la plataforma publica.la para poder implementarse en un sitio web propio, los planes de pago que ofrece dicha plataforma están pensados para las mismas editoriales de siempre, dueñas del mercado, y no en pequeñas editoriales o autores independientes. Saludos
Pablo Laurino
Maker
@alfagrama_ediciones_ii ¡Hola! Pensamos nuestros planes para ser lo más flexible posible y que funcione tanto para editoriales independientes, medianas, grandes o instituciones por igual. Me encantaría conversar contigo para buscar una alternativa que pueda servirte. Si quierés escribeme a plaurino@publica.la
Cecilia Saleme

a super useful and intuitive tool.

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Super helpful and easy to use. The transformation of text to audio works incredible.

Cons:

Nothing

Laura Lemke

Glad to see new interactive readers for PDF. Functional and beautiful design, easy to use, works well in different operational systems and gadgets . This can be really helpful for students!

Pros:

Easy to use

Cons:

Nothing

daniel laurino

I'd love to integrate this with Dropbox

Pros:

It converts text to audio automatically

Cons:

Can see their pricing plans

Martina Saleme

It looks promising

Pros:

Comfortable, fast, read aloud

Cons:

Lacks bookmarking

Guille Orellano

Increíble

Pros:

Funciona muy rápido!

Cons:

Ninguna.

Juan Camilo Rey
Hola k ase