Edwardxlai/easyread

Productivity & self-hostedJavaScript

5.9 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 1, 2026, 12:56 UTC.

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About the project

A local app for reading English-language research papers: it imports PDFs, translates them page by page in the background, and shows the translation with formulas and tables, side-by-side original text, annotations, and AI Q&A. All data stays on your own machine.

Useful for

Import a paper PDF and read it in your language with formulas and tables preserved
Compare the translation with the original and ask AI about a selected passage
Export annotations to Markdown for Obsidian or Notion

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

202 stars so far today, about 297 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 1 day old and already has 199 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #62.
About 41 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 199
Today: 202 · ≈ 297 by evening
Forks: 12
Issues and pull requests: 1
Watchers: 0
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Latest release: v1.1.0 · October 1, 2026
Created: September 30, 2026
Last push: October 1, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

October 1, 2026Top new repositories this week: #62

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