Classic literature,reimagined for 2026.

Free classics on the web end at "here's the text." Ours start there. Every chapter opens in iChatbook's reader — select to highlight, type to annotate, and your notes are saved to your account and surfaced on `/notes` next to the book.

The classics aren't trapped offline in an e-reader file you'll lose; they're the first page of a reading layer that grows with you.

Retellings replace the author. Translations keep the author but also the centuries of dust. The iChatbook Classics Rewrite is the rare third option — the original voice and original scenes, with only the texture of the world brought forward.

Then we plug it into a reader that holds your highlights, an Idea Graph that compounds across centuries, and Collections that turn a single curiosity into a body of thought.