Tide Reader Blog
TXT and eBook explainers, reading tips, and product news
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3 postsTypography
Explore font size, baselines, line height, and margins through seven HTML diagrams of comfortable reading.
Fonts
Choose serif or sans-serif fonts for novels, understand formats, weights, and system rendering, then inspect a font in your browser.
TXT Files Explained
What is a TXT file, and how do ASCII, GBK and UTF-8 differ? Includes a free in-browser encoding detector and line-ending converter.
Format conversion
72 pages9 e-book format families and 72 conversion directions. Each one explains the pitfalls and ships an in-browser converter.
Format guides
9 pagesWhat each format is, when to use it, and how it relates to the others.
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2 postsWhy are most web novels TXT files?
Why plain text remains ideal for web novels.
Local reading, cloud sync, and WebDAV
Choose a book backup workflow that fits.