Stillpoint's answer:

Three things at once that other speed readers don't combine. Everything runs in your browser: there is no server, your files are parsed on your device, and you can verify in the network tab that nothing gets uploaded. Documents keep their structure: tables, images, figures and code are shown as the real thing instead of being streamed as word soup. And it's built for finishing rather than skimming: progress is chapter-scoped like an audiobook, dense sentences slow down by themselves, and the stream rewinds a little whenever you unpause so you never lose the thread. Free, no account, works offline as a PWA.

Stillpoint's answer:

Most RSVP readers want an account, a subscription, or your files on their server, and they flatten every document into a bare word stream. Stillpoint is free with no account, parses PDFs and EPUBs entirely on your device, and shows tables, images and figures as the real thing. It also refuses the usual 'read 3x faster' pitch. The honest anchor is 400 to 600 words a minute, and the whole design optimizes for actually finishing books: chapter-scoped progress, automatic slowdown on dense sentences, sentence replay, and highlights you can export as Markdown.

Stillpoint's answer:

People who read on screens all day and still haven't finished a book in months. Knowledge workers, students, and plenty of ADHD and ADHD-adjacent readers who re-read the same paragraph four times because their eyes wander. It also fits anyone privacy-conscious: since parsing happens in the browser, the no-upload claim is something you can check yourself rather than a promise you have to trust.

Stillpoint's answer:

I built Stillpoint because I wanted to actually finish the PDFs and EPUBs piling up on my devices, and every existing RSVP reader either wanted an account and a subscription or wanted my files on their server. So I made the reader I was missing: one that runs entirely in the browser, treats documents with respect, and stays free. The name comes from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, his image of the still point of the turning world, which is also how the reading feels: the text moves while your eyes stand still.

Stillpoint's answer:

Vanilla JavaScript as native ES modules, with no build step and no framework. pdf.js and JSZip are vendored locally so parsing works offline, IndexedDB holds the on-device library, and a service worker precaches the shell to make it an installable PWA. There is no backend at all. Hosting is GitHub Pages; the only external requests are Google Fonts and one anonymous GoatCounter visit count. The code is open source under the MIT license on GitHub.