Bindery

Turn a PDF into a real ebook

Produces a reflowable EPUB with a chapter list, so the text resizes to the screen instead of forcing you to pinch and pan a fixed page.

  • Nothing is uploaded
  • No signup
  • No watermark
  • Works offline after the first visit

Questions

Why not just put the PDF on my e-reader?

A PDF has fixed page geometry, so on a small screen you get tiny text or constant panning. EPUB reflows to the screen and respects your font size. Note that a Kindle will not open an EPUB copied straight onto it — send it through Send to Kindle, which converts it.

Where do the chapters come from?

From the PDF's bookmarks when it has them, and otherwise from detected headings.

Bindery is free and always will be. There is no account, no upload and no paid tier — every tool runs in this tab, on your device.

Fonts: IBM Plex Sans and JetBrains Mono, SIL Open Font License. PDF engines: pdf-lib, pdf.js and MuPDF.