Google won the right not to show you the book
Book search worked by 2010. A licensed reading market was drafted in 2008 and killed in 2011. Neither problem was technology.
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Read across books.
Notes on preserving authors’ words, finding the right passages, and making reading inside ChatGPT feel like reading.
Nobody built the librarian
Fifty years of book discovery moved bestseller lists, not readers. A history of push, and the surface where pull finally exists.
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Why Coffeetable does not summarize books
A summary tells you what a book says. A reading lets the author say it. That distinction is the product.
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