BookWith

BookWith is an innovative e-book reader that transforms the way you engage with books. Unlike traditional e-book readers, BookWith integrates AI to become your reading partner. It answers your questions, deepens your understanding, and offers new perspectives, making reading an interactive and enriching experience.

Benefits

BookWith addresses several pain points of conventional e-book readers. It provides instant answers to your questions, helps verify and deepen your understanding through dialogue, automatically links to your past reading content, and integrates annotations and AI dialogue into solid knowledge. This makes BookWith a powerful tool for anyone looking to get more out of their reading.

Use Cases

BookWith is perfect for a variety of users, including researchers, graduate students, book lovers, students, examinees, and business professionals. Researchers and graduate students can use it to propose related research while reading papers and confirm complex theories on the spot. Book lovers can ask AI about character relationships in novels and get historical background or cultural context explained. Students and examinees can get instant explanations for unclear textbook sections and work through practice problems with AI. Business professionals can consult on applying business book concepts to their company and summarize key points and action plan creation.

Key Features

AI Reading Assistant

BookWith's AI reading assistant fully understands the book's content and provides context-aware answers. It offers instant answers to questions like "What does this term mean?" or "Summarize the author's argument." It also supports deep insight discussions like "How can this concept be applied today?" and provides natural Japanese dialogue with rich explanations of technical terms.

AI Podcast Generation

BookWith can convert book content into conversational podcasts. It automatically generates scripts from key points, converts them into a host-guest dialogue format, and utilizes Google Cloud Text-to-Speech's multi-speaker functionality for natural conversation rhythm and intonation. This feature is optimized for 5-10 minute listenable length and supports both Japanese and English.

Multi-Layer Memory System

BookWith's innovative memory management ensures continuity in your reading. It maintains short-term memory for the current conversation flow, mid-term memory for key discussion points across chapters, and long-term memory for retrieving relevant information from all past dialogues. It also learns your interests and preferences to provide a personalized reading experience.

Smart Annotation

BookWith's advanced highlighting feature visualizes your thinking. It offers five color highlights for different types of information, supports intelligent notes with Markdown formatting, and integrates AI to prompt questions about highlighted passages and provide related information.

Semantic Search

BookWith's revolutionary information discovery feature allows you to search across multiple books, past dialogue history, and annotation content. It also suggests past reading content related to what you are reading now.

How to Use

Using BookWith is straightforward. You start by uploading a book in ePub format. Then, you can read and highlight important text, add notes, and ask AI about highlighted content. You can chat with AI anytime, and your conversations are automatically saved and indexed. Finally, you can leverage your knowledge by reviewing past learning with semantic search and integrating knowledge from multiple books.

Environment & Technical Specs

BookWith supports a variety of devices, including PCs, tablets, and smartphones. It requires an internet connection for AI features and supports ePub 2.0 and ePub 3.0 formats.

Additional Information

BookWith is developed as a fork of an existing project, and the team is grateful for the excellent foundation provided by the original project. The setup guide includes system requirements, prerequisites, step-by-step installation process, configuration instructions, troubleshooting common setup issues, and getting started with your first book.