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For readers and your account

The reading experience

To make great work, it helps to know how readers meet it. FoundryInk's reading side is calm and considered: follow and shelf what you love, read the way you like, and even put on some music. Here's the experience your readers get, and that you get too.

Read time about 5 min

1Follow, shelf, continue

Readers follow a studio (a free follow, or a paid tier) and watch a series to get updates, and shelf issues into their library and their own lists. A Continue reading rail on Home and Browse remembers exactly where they left off, so a half-read issue is always one tap from finishing.

A project page after following: Subscribed and In library, beside Pin to feed and Share.
A project page after following: Subscribed and In library, beside Pin to feed and Share.See the full screen
An issue page with Read, Add to library and Add to list under the title.
An issue page with Read, Add to library and Add to list under the title.See the full screen
Pro note
Continue reading matters more than it looks. It's why a reader comes back tomorrow instead of forgetting you existed.

2Read it your way

Every issue reads as a vertical scroll or one page at a time (page-flip), and readers can override your default. When you've marked panels, the guided reader unlocks: Reveal feathers each panel into view as they reach it, or Cinematic glides and zooms from panel to panel. Tapping a character's name even opens their read-only Codex entry.

Above an issue's pages, Page flip and Vertical choose how it reads.
Above an issue's pages, Page flip and Vertical choose how it reads.See the full screen
Vertical reading shows the pages as one long scroll, with Page flip at the top right.
Vertical reading shows the pages as one long scroll, with Page flip at the top right.See the full screen
Pro note
Try your own issue in Cinematic mode. Seeing your pacing panel by panel changes how you lay out the next one.

3Put on some music

The Chill Player is a slim, license-free music bar at the top of the site for signed-in members: hit Find music, preview, and pin your favourites into a little row of chips. It remembers your volume and follows you across devices, a calm soundtrack for a long read, with the artist credited while each track plays.

Find music: search license-free tracks, preview one, and Pin it to the bar at the top.
Find music: search license-free tracks, preview one, and Pin it to the bar at the top.See the full screen
Pro note
Pin a few gentle tracks and read your own back catalogue with music on. It's a good way to proofread.

Read like a reader

See it from their side. Links into the app. Saved on this device.

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Quick questions

No. You set a default reading mode on the series, but readers can switch between vertical scroll and page-flip in the reader itself, whatever's comfortable for them.

When you've marked up panels on your pages. Then readers can step through in Reveal (panels feather in) or Cinematic (a gliding, zooming view) mode.

A slim, license-free background-music bar for signed-in members. Find and pin tracks, and it remembers your volume and pins across devices, with the artist credited as it plays.

By following your studio and watching the series for updates, shelving issues into their library and lists, and using Continue reading to pick up where they left off.

You've seen both sides

Following, reading modes, and a little music, the whole reader side. Last stop: make FoundryInk yours.

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