DualBook 8 languages

About DualBook

Making books readable across languages

DualBook is an AI-powered reading platform. You upload an EPUB, choose a target language, and get a context-aware translation you can read side by side with the original — plus summaries and audiobooks generated from the same book.

The DualBook reader showing the original and the Vietnamese translation side by side

The problem we are solving

Most books are never translated into most languages

A reader who wants a specific title in their own language usually has no edition to buy, and general-purpose translation tools handle a paragraph well but fall apart over 300 pages.

A general translation tool

Falls apart over 300 pages

  • Terminology drifts between chapters
  • Names change spelling partway through
  • Tone resets at the start of every chapter

DualBook

Treats the whole book as one unit of work

  • Context carried across the whole book
  • The result stays coherent from first page to last
  • Read it beside the original, in a reader that keeps your place
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What DualBook does

Four things, one book

Everything runs from the same upload, so the translation, the summary and the audio all describe the same text.

See the features

Translates a full EPUB

Context carried across chapters, exported as an EPUB in bilingual or translation-only form.

Presents both languages

Original and translation side by side, with inline dictionary lookups, pronunciation audio, highlights, notes and bookmarks.

Summarises and narrates

Summaries at three lengths, and audiobooks produced from a book or from its summary as MP3 or M4B.

Built with Google

Gemini API

Context-aware book translation, summaries, and text-to-speech

Google Sign-In (OAuth 2.0)

Account creation and authentication

Google Analytics 4

Product usage measurement

Planned on Google Cloud Cloud RunCloud StorageCloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Where we are

Pre-funded, with a working MVP in production

The full flow — account creation, EPUB upload, AI translation, bilingual reading, summaries, and audiobook generation — is live and usable today, with paid plans running through Stripe.

We are focused on growing our initial user base and intend to raise venture funding as usage grows and we expand beyond our current language pairs.

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Operator
Independent
Founded
Dec 2025
Location
Vietnam
Stage
Pre-funded
Product
dualbook.net
Contact
thanhlc@dualbook.net
Founder
Thanh Le Founder & Engineer · Vietnam · thanhlc@dualbook.net LinkedIn profile

Try it with your own book

Read the first fifth of any book free

No card required. Upload an EPUB, choose a target language, and start reading in both.