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Re:Show HN: An Open-Source E-Book Reader for Conversational ... by nathan_douglas on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:41PM (#44816730)
Thank you for sharing this!

I'm disappointed by some of the negative comments. I'm pretty excited about this and plan to try and get this running locally this week. I end discussing a lot of the books I read with ChatGPT, e.g. "hey, this made me think of $idea" or "uh... this is familiar, what am I thinking of?" and to be able to get back a "yeah, check out Ulam's paper on $topic or $book by $author" is really really valuable to me.

I don't read a lot of ePubs (they tend to be mostly PDFs or dead trees) so I might need to adjust a bit, but I'd definitely gonna give something a spin with this.

Re:Show HN: An Open-Source E-Book Reader for Conversational ... by takigon on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:58PM (#44818835)
I am really glad to hear you say that. It's very encouraging. There is still a lot of room for improvement in this application, so please feel free to give us feedback if you have any complaints after actually using it.