Nook

Nook is a browser-based reading tool that helps people keep their place and finish online articles. Its site describes online reading as tiring because text presentation can cause lost place, visual noise, repeated rereading, and dense blocks of text that are hard to follow. The product’s purpose is to change how text behaves so reading feels less draining in the browser.

Its features include Autopace, which moves text at the reader’s rhythm, and Bionic Text, which highlights word beginnings to help word recognition. Nook also offers Chunking in two forms: breaking long content into manageable paragraphs and showing one line at a time. In addition, it provides seven specialized fonts, including OpenDyslexic, Atkinson Hyperlegible, and Lexend, plus eight calm backgrounds such as sepia, dark mode, and mint. The site says these features are grounded in research and links them to studies on guided reading, chunking, and font choice.

The service is meant for reading online articles and is presented as suitable for use on anything a person reads in the browser. It is described as free, with no credit card required to start, and it works in the browser. The page also includes research references from institutions and publications such as Adobe Research, Brown University, Google, ACM CHI, Learning and Instruction, and other journals.