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I asked an AI to explain my book without spoiling it
What happens when you ask an AI about a book you are halfway through, and what it takes for the answer to stop at your page.
Kindle “Ask this Book” vs. Graspium
Amazon’s Ask this Book and Graspium both answer spoiler-free questions about your book. Where they differ: which books, which devices, which languages.
ChatGPT Spoiled My Book, So I Built an AI That Can’t
A general chatbot has no idea where you are in a book. Why that ends in spoilers, and how Graspium bounds every answer by your bookmark.
Guides
- How to have your ebook read aloud to you
The tolino, Kindle and Kobo apps read many ebooks aloud with a computer voice; any DRM-free EPUB gets an AI voice. Step by step, with a listening test.
- Export your ebook highlights and notes: the easy way from tolino
The easiest way: tolino highlights online into Graspium, then out as Markdown for Notion, CSV or text. Step by step, plus the USB, Kobo and Kindle routes.
- Ebook page numbers wrong? Why they differ from the print book
An ebook has no fixed pages. Why the page count differs between tolino, Kindle, Kobo and print, what changes it, and how to cite an ebook.