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

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18 points joezee | 10 comments | 31 Mar 25 09:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.894s | source | bottom
1. joezee ◴[31 Mar 25 09:55 UTC] No.43533102[source]▶
Show HN: AI-powered reading companion that helps you read hard books
2. sinuhe69 ◴[31 Mar 25 15:07 UTC] No.43535901[source]▶
What does it do? I couldn't see AI or any other function beside reading “Meditation”. (Was on my iPad)
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3. quibono ◴[31 Mar 25 15:26 UTC] No.43536136[source]▶
If you select a section of the text it gives you an option to "explain" the selected bit.
4. sitkack ◴[31 Mar 25 16:19 UTC] No.43536734[source]▶
This is wonderful! Where do you want to take this?
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5. mier ◴[31 Mar 25 16:36 UTC] No.43536945[source]▶
I thought O’Reilly is doing the same thing
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6. joezee ◴[31 Mar 25 16:40 UTC] No.43536989[source]▶
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
7. joezee ◴[31 Mar 25 16:43 UTC] No.43537022[source]▶
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
8. joezee ◴[31 Mar 25 16:45 UTC] No.43537042[source]▶
They are doing it for technical books, I am doing it for lindy classics, think Meditations – Marcus Aurelius, Das Kapital – Karl Marx ...
9. rambojohnson ◴[31 Mar 25 19:24 UTC] No.43538766[source]▶
Honestly what’s the difference between this and what I already do with ChatGPT?