About AI Reading Club

How would an AI-powered reading experience look like?

Inspired by Karpathy's tweet, we prototyped AI Reading Club to explore the idea and user experience, and help readers get more out of reading. Dewey, your AI reading companion, can help with:

• Get explanations & discussions: Need help understanding a passage or want to discuss various perspectives? Highlight or scroll to the relevant page and ask Dewey.
• Quiz yourself: Want to test your understanding and improve retention? Dewey can help with generating simple multiple-choice quizzes.
• Recap the book so far: Revisiting a book you've put down for a while? Dewey can help you pick up where you left off and summarize the book so far.
• Revisit past discussions: Discussions with Dewey are saved and tied to paragraphs, making it easy to review discussions on a passage or across the entire book.

How to get started

1. Select a Book: Select a book in the library (sourced from Project Gutenberg).
2. Start Reading: Enjoy a clean, distraction-free reading experience.
3. Engage with the text: Highlight any passage or click on the Dewey icon.
4. Get more out of the book: Ask questions, get explanations, or explore different perspectives about the text. Generate quizzes, summaries, and more.

How was this built?

More on features, UX considerations, and behind-the-scenes in this writeup.