Show HN: AI-powered reading companion that helps you read hard books

18 pointsposted 2 days ago
by joezee

9 Comments

sinuhe69

2 days ago

What does it do? I couldn't see AI or any other function beside reading “Meditation”. (Was on my iPad)

quibono

2 days ago

If you select a section of the text it gives you an option to "explain" the selected bit.

joezee

2 days ago

as quibono said it, right now it just explains passages you find difficult to digest, but planning on much more later, "Meditation" is the name of book, no iPad/Mobile support yet

joezee

2 days ago

Show HN: AI-powered reading companion that helps you read hard books

sitkack

2 days ago

This is wonderful! Where do you want to take this?

joezee

2 days ago

Thank you! Originally I built this for myself, trying to make Lindy books more accessible and the reading experience more enjoyable, I would appreciate if you could give me some feedback: @yucefzd on X

mier

2 days ago

I thought O’Reilly is doing the same thing

joezee

2 days ago

They are doing it for technical books, I am doing it for lindy classics, think Meditations – Marcus Aurelius, Das Kapital – Karl Marx ...

rambojohnson

2 days ago

Honestly what’s the difference between this and what I already do with ChatGPT?