Paginis is a flipbook viewer that turns your PDFs into interactive, flip-through books. You can load a PDF from a URL or upload a local file—all while pairing it with a YouTube playlist for a more dynamic experience.

What Makes It Great? I made this as a side project because I read a lot, and the typical PDF viewer always felt a bit dry. With Paginis, you can add, update, or delete quotes and notes, use the bookmark feature to easily navigate chapters and sections, and enjoy a big page preview to get a quick overview of the content. It’s all about making reading more flexible and engaging.

Libraries & Tools: PDF.js, Three.js, DFlip, JQuery_DFlip, CSS

Source Code : Paginis

  • @hperrin
    23•5 months ago

    I don’t think you’re supposed to view someone else’s paginis without permission.

      • NickwithaCEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        It really does read like a combination of vagina and penis though.

        Something like Open Pages would be more descriptive.

        • @[email protected]OP
          1•4 months ago

          I will change the name, logo; still taking a latin name probably. Open pages is already a used name by IBM.

  • tubbadu
    10•4 months ago

    Super Cool! Does it support other formats like epub, cbz etc?

    • @[email protected]OP
      6•4 months ago

      Glad you like it. For the current time only PDF, because epub, cbz are not supported in dflip library, and they tend to have more work to render them. Epub is a favorite file extension for me, so I will try to add this into the project when I have time.

  • Programmer BelchEnglish
    6•4 months ago

    Would love to have an implementation of this in a virtual reality environment but for now, I prefer the actual look of PDF as a long strip of pages.

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•4 months ago

      Yes it’s would be much cooler, I have a friend working on something like this, but he said it’s in it early development.

      As the actual look of long stripes of pages is good, but as I said it has a bit dry look and not very engaging, when you read a lot, basic PDF viewer kills that joy. Anyway maybe I am wrong.

      • Programmer BelchEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        I have been moving to epub for reading books, my app of choice is Librera. It has many customization options.

          • Programmer BelchEnglish
            1•4 months ago

            Doesn’t seem like it, here is the fdroid link if there are any documented alternatives in the repos

            • @[email protected]OP
              2•4 months ago

              Oh, I don’t like reading that much on a mobile phone, I installed it anyway, it can serve a good purpose when viewing small books. Thanks for sharing.

  • TrumpetXEnglish
    3•4 months ago

    You might mention the library license of the underlying library, it’s strictly non commercial meaning yours is too.

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•4 months ago

      The main libary I am using is a plugin from dflip which is called jQuery_dflip library; which in fact has a commercial license.

      I look into it, when the first issue in the repository have been opened, so Apache license is a good license for this project.

      Thanks for passing by, and dropping the good feedback.