Solarium For Android

Solarium

An ePub reader for the Daylight DC1

A purpose-built reading app for a paper-like screen, but designed to look great on any Android tablet. Fewer features, on purpose.

Get it onGoogle Play DownloadAPK File

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Series view showing The Wheel of Time collection with cover art, download badges, and continue-reading dock
Library
Book detail modal for Distrust That Particular Flavor showing metadata, tags, reading progress, and action buttons
Book Detail
Reading The Republic with a highlighted passage and progress bar
Reader

Built for a screen that looks like paper.

The Daylight DC1 has a LivePaper display. No backlight during the day. You read by the light in the room, the way you read paper. It runs at 60fps, works in direct sunlight, and glows amber at night.

Solarium is designed to do what that display does best. Which means doing less: less color, fewer settings, no features you won't use. Better reading.

Greyscale-first

Every element is legible and clear on a monochrome display. Color is enhancement, never a requirement.

Sketch on the page

The DC1 ships with a stylus. Annotate in the margins, underline a passage, sketch a thought directly on the page.

Less is the point

No social features. No reading streaks. No AI summaries. Solarium does not try to be everything. It holds your books. It lets you read them.

Designed for LivePaper. Works beautifully on any Android tablet.

Your library

Your server and your device, one shelf.

Point Solarium at an OPDS server and those books appear alongside the ones already on your tablet. Not in a separate tab. Not behind a sync button. One library.

Works seamlessly with Calibre Content Server, Calibre-Web, Komga, Kavita, and Project Gutenberg.

OPDS 1.x · OPDS 2.0 · Multiple servers, one shelf · Downloads stay on device

Questions.

What is OPDS?
A standard protocol for browsing and downloading books from a server. Think of it like RSS for your book library. If you run Calibre, Komga, or Kavita, you probably already have one.
Where can I get ePUBs?
Solarium ships with three books to get you started: Walden, Meditations, and Leaves of Grass. Project Gutenberg has over 70,000 free public domain books and Solarium can connect to it directly from the library. Beyond that, most DRM-free bookstores sell ePUBs, and Calibre can convert from nearly any format.
Do I need a Daylight DC1?
No. Solarium is designed for the DC1's LivePaper display, but it works on any Android tablet.
How much does it cost?
Solarium is free. If you want to support the project, become a paid subscriber to /wunsch/log.

Coming soon.

Solarium is in active development for Android.

Get it onGoogle Play DownloadAPK File