Author-grounded conversational study tools
Most annotation comes from a stranger. Reading Companions replaces that with the author. The companion sees the page the reader sees and talks it over in the voice that made it.
What it is
Each companion is authored from the public-domain record, the works, letters, biographies, and the scholarship around them, prepared with university researchers and field experts. It turns reading from a passive act into a conversation.
No one is asked to believe the author has returned: the companion keeps a frank distance from the figure while holding the voice close to the work. A reader can speak with it aloud or keep the exchange to a written thread.
The current reader is browser-based and split-screen, with goal-based tone, repeat visits for web readers, and a memory-off kiosk mode for institutions. The first audiences are schools, libraries, and literary estates.
Put the author beside the reader.
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