Reading Mode

Overview

Coffeescribe's Reading Mode provides a clean, focused environment for reading your scribes. It includes tools for highlighting, note-taking, dictionary lookups, and customizable display preferences.

Reading Your Scribe

Open any scribe from your Library or the public library. The reader displays:

• Chapter and section navigation
• Reading progress bar
• Full-width content area optimized for readability

Highlighting

Select any text to see the highlight toolbar. Choose from four colours:

• Yellow — General highlights
• Blue — Important concepts
• Pink — Key quotes or passages
• Orange — Items to review

You can change a highlight's colour or remove it at any time. All highlights are saved automatically and can be viewed in your Notebooks.

Notes

Add notes to any highlighted passage or create standalone notes for a section:

• Click on a highlight to add or edit a note
• Notes support tags for organization
• View all your notes in the Notebooks section
• Notes are linked to their scribe and section for context

Dictionary

Select a single word (1-30 characters) to look it up with the built-in dictionary. This is useful for unfamiliar terms or checking definitions while reading.

Copy Text

Select text and use the copy option to copy passages to your clipboard.

Reading Preferences

Customize how scribes are displayed. Your preferences are saved automatically.

Notebooks

Notebooks is accessible from the primary navigation bar at the top of every page. It collects all your highlights and notes across all scribes:

• Browse highlights by scribe
• Search and filter notes
• See the context (scribe, chapter, section) for each item
• Navigate directly to the highlighted passage

Tips

• Focused mode hides the navigation for distraction-free reading
• Keyboard navigation is supported for turning pages
• Touch targets are sized for comfortable mobile use (44px minimum)
• Your reading position is remembered when you return to a scribe