No matter what books we bought, getting him to finish one was always a struggle.
Then we found Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
He loved it.
One book became two. Two became five. Before long, he had read ten books in the series — all as EPUBs.
When I bought the eleventh book, something unexpected happened.
It was only available as a PDF.
I sent it to him.
He looked at it and said,
"I'm not reading this."
Same story. Same author. Same words. Different format.
That moment made me realize something I had never thought about before: people don't just read books. They read reading experiences.
A PDF is great for preserving pages. It isn't great for reading books.
I searched for a way to turn that PDF into a proper EPUB. Nothing felt good enough.
So I built Paragra.
Today, Paragra transforms PDFs into beautiful, reflowable EPUB books using Apple Intelligence — because a file format should never stand between a reader and a book.