



Made a free online reader that disguises your book as code — because reading at work shouldn't get you side-eyed
Like a lot of us, my reading time got squeezed to nothing once work started — but I still wanted to sneak in a few pages during the day without it looking like I'd abandoned my laptop for a novel.
So over a few weekends I built **ReadYourWay** — a free, no-signup web app that turns any PDF into your choice of:
- A VS Code window — file explorer, tabs, line numbers, the whole thing
- A terminal streaming "server logs"
- An actual command-line shell — you type `cd bookname`, `next`, `bm` (bookmark) and the book comes back as command output
- An Excel spreadsheet
- Or, if you don't need the disguise, a genuinely clean e-reader — scroll or page-flip, highlights, bookmarks, day/night themes
Everything happens in your browser — no account, nothing uploaded anywhere, the PDF just stays on your device. Switch between any of these anytime with Ctrl+M.
It's live at readyourway if anyone wants to try it. Built it mostly for myself, so genuinely curious what this sub thinks — bugs, feature requests, roasts, all welcome.
(Mods — flag me if this counts as spam under rule 5, happy to adjust, just figured fellow readers might get some use out of it.)