Emaki

Formerly EasyReader. Named after the emaki (絵巻), the Japanese narrative picture scroll — the thousand-year-old ancestor of the webtoon.

An Android reader for web novels, manga, manhwa, and local files (like PDFs and EPUBs). Built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

Features

• Built-in scraper: Extracts text and chapters from almost any novel site.
• Offline reading: Pre-fetch and cache entire series locally.
• Unified search: Search across multiple sources (like MangaBat and NovelFire) at once.
• Formats: Supports web novels, manga, EPUB, PDF, and HTML.
• Local AI: Summarizes chapters on-device using a local LLM.
• No cloud BS: Everything is stored locally on your device.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• JDK 17+
• Android Studio / Android SDK (compileSdk = 37)

Run the App

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/Aatricks/EasyReader.git
   cd EasyReader
   

2. Run the default debug build:

   ./gradlew :app:installStandardDebug
   

Build Variants

The app has two build flavors:

• standard (default): Normal build. Doesn't need the local llmedge library. AI summarization is visible but will show as unavailable.
• ai: Enables local AI summarization and downloads the llmedge dependency from Maven Central automatically. To run:

  ./gradlew :app:installAiDebug
  

[!NOTE] The app package name is still io.aatricks.novelscraper and the source code namespace is still io.aatricks.easyreader so existing installs keep updating in place across the EasyReader → Emaki rename.

Contributing

Open a PR if you want to add a source or fix a bug.