Visual books first
Spreads, single pages, manga direction, PDFs, and archives are handled as reading modes, not afterthoughts.
LIJN
A private reading room for BD, comics, manga, and ebooks you keep yourself.
CBZ · CBR · PDF · EPUB · OPDS
Some readers feel like feeds, storefronts, or sync accounts. Lijn is built around a simpler idea: the book stays central, and the software stays quiet.
Import your books. Keep the catalogue legible. Open quickly. Remember where you were. That is the product.
Reading
Made for the page.
Visual books have shape: spreads, reading direction, page turns, rhythm. Lijn treats those as part of the work, not as settings hidden three menus deep.
A library you can parse
Covers, series, formats, progress, and OPDS sources stay visible without turning into a management console.
Private by default
No account, no analytics, no external library service. Your library is not a growth channel.
Plenty more / plenty less
Built with restraint.
The app should support attention without becoming another place to administer your life.
What belongs
- +Owned files and local-first reading state.
- +OPDS catalogues for libraries you already run.
- +Fast return to the book, page, panel, or series.
What does not
- -Social feeds, streak pressure, or performative reading.
- -Analytics dashboards pretending to be insight.
- -A cloud shelf that owns the relationship.
In use
The shelf, then the page.
Leaf through: the shelf, a page of La Marque Jaune caught mid-turn, Alticcio — the city this studio is named after — the book reader, and a catalogue. The library carries the collection; the reader disappears behind the page.
Read. Mark. Return.
Lijn is for readers who come back to books over time: the unfinished volume, the panel you remember, the series you are slowly assembling.
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