Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 96 pages
Ninety-six pages.
Most of them a joke you half-caught.
Alice is the rare short book you finish unsure what happened. The wordplay is doing real work, the logic is deliberately broken in specific ways, and most of it rewards being asked about — with the answer quoting the line it came from.
When the book does not answer your question, it tells you so instead of inventing an answer.
Public domain, hosted here, 96 pages.
Ask what a passage is playing with
The jokes turn on logic and language. Ask what one is doing and the answer quotes the line rather than paraphrasing it away.
A cast that keeps changing shapePro
The character tracker builds the cast from the text, which is more help than it sounds in a book where characters arrive once and vanish.
Short enough to finish, dense enough to reread
Four reading modes — Focus, Bionic, Speed and Dyslexia Friendly — and highlights that export to Notion, Obsidian, Markdown or JSON.
Features marked Pro need a Pro plan and are usage-limited. Reading the book, asking questions and getting cited answers do not.
Things worth asking this book
Each answer quotes the passage it came from and links to where it sits in the text.
- “What is the Mad Hatter’s riddle, and does the book answer it?”
- “Where does Alice’s size change, and what triggers each one?”
- “What rule of logic is the Cheshire Cat breaking?”
- “Which characters appear only once?”
Questions people actually ask
- Is it really free?
- The book is public domain and hosted here — download it from /sample-books. It is 96 pages.
- Can it explain the jokes?
- It can quote and explain what the text is doing. Where the joke depends on something the book never states, it says so instead of guessing.
- Is this useful for a child reading it?
- The reading modes help — Dyslexia Friendly and Focus in particular. The AI features are built for questions about the text, not as a tutor, and a beta is a beta.
It works the same on a textbook
The same reader handles equations, figures and tables, with answers scoped to the chapter you are working in.
- University Physics Volume 1 — OpenStax
- Biology 2e — OpenStax
- Calculus Volume 1 — OpenStax
What it does not do yet
You have been sold AI reading tools before. Here is where this one is weak, so you can decide before you spend an evening on it.
- The character tracker is a Pro feature and is usage-limited. Reading, asking and cited answers are not.
- It answers from the book. Victorian references it does not explain itself are outside what it will claim.
- It runs in a browser, on a phone or a laptop. There is no native app yet.
- Highlights and notes export to Notion, Obsidian, Markdown or JSON. Generated study material does not export yet.
- It is a private beta. Things break, and the deal is that you tell me when they do.
Free Pro through the end of the year
The first 50 invitations include free Pro through the end of the year. Invitations go out in small batches so I can actually talk to everyone. Tell me what you are trying to read and I will send one — all I ask is that you tell me what breaks.
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