Lightning Mode

Dear Readers,

From Nietzsche's Daybreak: "It is not for nothing that I have been a philologist... one has to be slow, deep, careful. But precisely thereby the book invites its reader to the opposite of haste... For philology is that venerable art which demands of its votaries one thing above all: to go aside, to take time, to become still, to become slow."

Our heroes wrote this way on purpose. They crafted sentences meant to be lingered over, considered, felt. They weren't writing for an age of hurry. They were writing for minds willing to slow down.

This is why we built Lightning Mode.

With every book in Alexandria, you can read sentence by sentence. One line at a time. No rushing ahead, no scrolling past what matters. Just you and the words, at your own pace.

It's a small feature, but it changes everything. When you're reading Seneca or Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, each sentence is already complete—a thought you can hold, turn over, test against your own experience. Lightning Mode honors that. It lets you focus. It removes the pressure to consume and replaces it with permission to absorb.

In an age of haste, slow reading becomes a radical act. Not a retreat, but a choice. A way of saying: this matters enough to take my time.

Our heroes wrote slowly, carefully, with delicate fingers and eyes. Lightning Mode is our way of helping you read the same way—slowly, profoundly, attentively. One sentence at a time. At the speed of thought.