Source-grounded ebook reading and study workspace

Reduce study time per book while keeping every answer traceable to its source passage. For researchers, students and professional readers working through long ebooks and documents, convert licensed ebook files, reading history and personal notes into a reviewed reading workspace with cited answers, narration, translation, summaries and exportable notes. The benefit is a testable hypothesis, measured through verified answers per study hour and correction rate on cited passages; do not assume that AI output alone produces business value.

Confirm the buyer's problem and scope, collect licensed ebook files, reading history and personal notes, then follow this sequence: 1. Open and display common ebook and document formats. 2. Answer in-book questions from the book's content. 3. Show the passages or quotes each answer came from. 4. Read the book aloud with text-to-speech narration. 5. Translate selected passages or whole chapters. 6. Summarize dense sections or entire chapters. 7. Collect marked passages and notes into an editable draft. 8. Export highlights and notes as a Markdown file. Resolve uncertain cases with qualified reviewers, approve the reviewed reading workspace, and measure verified answers per study hour and correction rate on cited passages against a documented baseline.

How the AI works

Use AI to interpret permitted inputs, suggest structured mappings and generate candidate outputs for the stated task modules. Use deterministic code for arithmetic, schema validation, hard constraints and reproducible tests. Review source-linked explanations and uncertainty before accepting results. Local-first operation and the reader's own AI key remain options; final citation, translation and summary checks remain human. A model suggestion is never a verified fact, professional decision or authorization to act.

Safeguards

Preserve source attribution, quotation accuracy and usage permissions. Readers approve substantive changes and sharing scope. One fixed ebook format and one language pair; final citation, translation and summary checks remain human. Keep all consequential actions under authorized human control and do not fabricate missing inputs, permissions, professional judgments or market evidence.

What to build first

Pilot scope: One fixed ebook format and one language pair; final citation, translation and summary checks remain human. Implement one approved input format, a bounded representative book set and the first two task modules: open and display common ebook and document formats; answer in-book questions from the book's content. Support the remaining modules with operator review: show the passages or quotes each answer came from; read the book aloud with text-to-speech narration; translate selected passages or whole chapters; summarize dense sections or entire chapters; collect marked passages and notes into an editable draft; export highlights and notes as a Markdown file. Include source references, corrections, basic organization access, approval states, export and value measurement. Use managed operator assistance for unresolved exceptions. The cost estimate covers this narrow prototype, not unrestricted multi-tenant scale, complex production integrations, specialist certification or physical operations.

What it can connect to

Reader-owned ebook files, personal notes and permitted research sources. Cloud file storage, ebook platform import/export and note destinations. Start with file exchange and validate destination specifications before promising direct retailer purchase. Start with authorized file exchange. Validate current provider access, usage rights and schema behavior before promising a connector.

The screens in detail

Primary screens: Library and import, Reading and study workspace, Notes and export. Use a thumbnail shelf for books, a large central reading pane, and a right-hand panel for questions, citations, notes and narration controls. Let users compare a passage with its translation and summary side by side. Display draft, reviewed and exported states for notes. Provide a shared reading-list view with comments anchored to the relevant passage. Make the task-specific outcome reviewed reading workspace with cited answers, narration, translation, summaries and exportable notes visible beside its evidence, review state and value baseline.