Lectern — Reader Mode, AI Summaries & Highlights

About

Lectern is a distraction-free reader and reader mode for the web. Turn any article, blog post, or news page into a clean, beautifully typeset reading view — no ads, no popups, no clutter. Get instant AI summaries, highlight and annotate as you read, speed-read with one-word focus mode, listen with text-to-speech, and export everything to Markdown, HTML, or PDF. Lectern is built for people who actually read.

Why you'll love Lectern:
📖 Distraction-free reader mode — Strip away ads, popups, sidebars, and clutter. Open any article in a calm, focused reading view with elegant typography and comfortable margins.
✨ Instant AI summaries — Turn a long read into a clear, concise summary in one click — generated privately on your own device.
🖍️ Highlight & annotate — Save passages as you read, add your own notes, and keep every highlight organised in one searchable hub.
📤 Export your reading — Download articles and highlights as Markdown, HTML, or PDF. Perfect for Obsidian, Notion, research, or your own archive.
⚡ Speed reading — Flash one word at a time to push comfortably past your usual reading pace and stay focused.
🔊 Listen to anything — Have any article read aloud with built-in text-to-speech.
🎨 Read your way — Multiple reading themes for day and night, adjustable fonts and sizing, auto-scroll, and automatic save-your-place so you never lose your spot.

Private by design. Lectern runs entirely in your browser. Your reading, your highlights, and your summaries stay on your device — nothing is sent to a server.

Perfect for: students, researchers, writers, and anyone who reads long articles, essays, papers, or blog posts and wants a calmer, more focused way to do it.

Lectern is a product from niallcodes — an independent software project based in the United Kingdom.