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

18 pointsposted 10 months ago
by joezee

10 Comments

meandni

10 months ago

I'm also very interested in this product and have been working on something similar, but I'm not sure if there's a real market for it.

sinuhe69

10 months ago

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

quibono

10 months ago

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

joezee

10 months 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

10 months ago

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

sitkack

10 months ago

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

joezee

10 months 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

10 months ago

I thought O’Reilly is doing the same thing

joezee

10 months ago

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

rambojohnson

10 months ago

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