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.
The companion
Each companion is authored from the public-domain record: works, letters, biographies, and the scholarship around them, prepared with university researchers and field experts. Reading becomes a conversation.
The voice sits close to the work; the companion remains plainly a study tool. Readers can talk with the companion 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.
The author, beside the reader.
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