Show HN: A cursor like experience to read epubs, starting with a mindmap

https://www.proread.ai/book

20•kasince2k•7mo ago

I built ProRead to prevent stalling on long passages and to keep the overall context clear.

Features

* Bird’s-eye overview with drill-down to any level

* Interactive maps showing concept links

* Quick switch between chapter summaries and original text

* Contextual AI Q\&A

* Text-to-speech for any book or summary level

* EPUB upload for instant access

Includes nine classics (Wealth of Nations, Crime and Punishment, etc.) and support for your own books.

I arrived at this by piecing together LLM-based workflows for reading until I decided to build a dedicated tool. Feedback welcome.

Comments

rajs123•7mo ago

As someone who is always on a hunt for LLM-enhanced reading workflows, I love this tool! I like the select text and add to chat feature and TTS mode features.

kasince2k•7mo ago

thank you! would love to hear more about how you use proread!

palash2995•7mo ago

thanks for sharing, just converted a research paper into this format. Makes it so much more consumable

rajatp•7mo ago

Love the mindmaps!

pdasika•7mo ago

I think the spaces are very interesting. I will use it for my weekly dose of arxiv paper reading.

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