alt.hn

3/31/2025 at 9:38:52 AM

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

https://lumen.collabai.live/

by joezee

3/31/2025 at 3:07:07 PM

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

by sinuhe69

3/31/2025 at 3:26:23 PM

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

by quibono

3/31/2025 at 4:43:09 PM

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

by joezee

3/31/2025 at 9:55:38 AM

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

by joezee

3/31/2025 at 4:19:04 PM

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

by sitkack

3/31/2025 at 4:40:04 PM

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

by joezee

3/31/2025 at 4:36:21 PM

I thought O’Reilly is doing the same thing

by mier

3/31/2025 at 4:45:56 PM

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

by joezee

3/31/2025 at 7:24:33 PM

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

by rambojohnson