Jane Austen · 1813 · 279 pages
Twenty-odd named characters.
Half of them called Miss Bennet.
Austen assumes you are keeping up with an entail, five sisters, and a social code nobody explains. A reader that can be asked "who is this, and when did we meet them" is worth more here than in most textbooks — and every answer points at the passage it came from.
When the book does not answer your question, it tells you so instead of inventing an answer.
Public domain, hosted here, 279 pages.
Who is who, tracked as you readPro
The character tracker builds the cast from the book itself, so a name reappearing 200 pages later is one you can place.
The order things happened inPro
A plot timeline drawn from the text, for a novel whose crises arrive by letter and out of sequence.
Regency English, kept
Words you look up enter a vocabulary builder with SM-2 review — useful when the obstacle is 1813 vocabulary rather than the plot.
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 exactly is an entail, and why does it threaten the Bennets?”
- “When does Elizabeth first revise her opinion of Darcy, and what causes it?”
- “What does Charlotte Lucas say marriage is for?”
- “Who is Mr Collins to the Bennet family, in plain terms?”
Questions people actually ask
- Is the book free?
- Yes. Pride and Prejudice is public domain and we host a copy — download it from /sample-books and read it here.
- Will it spoil the plot?
- Ask about the chapter you are in and answers are scoped to it. Ask about the whole book and it will answer from the whole book, so scope the question if you are mid-read.
- What are the character tracker and timeline?
- They build a cast list and a sequence of events from the text itself. Both are Pro features with usage limits; the reading, the questions and the citations are not.
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.
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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 and plot timeline are Pro features and are usage-limited. Reading the book, asking questions and getting cited answers are not.
- It answers from the novel. It will not tell you what critics have made of it — that is not in the book.
- 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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