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Re: Show HN: Kindllm – LLM chat optimized for Kindle e-readers

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Post by rexec »

feintruled wrote: post #30

Very cool. I've no idea if this is possible without rooting the Kindle, but I wonder would it be possible to highlight sections of text in a book and send it to something like this with a request to summarise/explain?

It's a good idea! Amazon doesn't offer an API for fetching highlights but services like Readwise seem to get around this by using a Chrome extension to do it. Not sure how that could be done on a Kindle though...

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Post by kccqzy »

rexec wrote: post #2

Made this to not have to constantly look things up on my phone while reading. It's pretty handy for generating longer essays to read on the Kindle too.

I have the same problem, namely a constant urge to look up things while reading paper books. My personal solution to that is to copy whatever sentence that triggers my urge to look up anything and then set aside time to do the look up later. I think the value it brings is that I won't be distracted into deep rabbit holes while finishing my book.

I'm not sure what's the end goal here though. It seems like you would like to look up things as soon as you encounter them, but on the same device (Kindle)? Then the benefit is not switching devices?

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Post by pbronez »

rexec wrote: post #6
raimo wrote: post #5

Cool! This brings to my mind that it would be cool to have a local LLM chat that is able to point to certain places in a book I'm reading offline and have it recommend portions of the book I should focus on.

Yeah it would be nice if the LLM knew what you're currently reading - tricky to do with a web app though!

Concur- I’d love to have the book I’m reading — and anything before/after it in the series — available to an LLM for quick reference.

Re: Show HN: Kindllm – LLM chat optimized for Kindle e-readers

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Post by rexec »

kccqzy wrote: post #36
rexec wrote: post #2

Made this to not have to constantly look things up on my phone while reading. It's pretty handy for generating longer essays to read on the Kindle too.

I have the same problem, namely a constant urge to look up things while reading paper books. My personal solution to that is to copy whatever sentence that triggers my urge to look up anything and then set aside time to do the look up later. I think the value it brings is that I won't be distracted into deep rabbit holes while finishing my book. I'm not sure what's the end goal here though. It seems like you would li…

That sounds like a good system.

Yeah I find my phone and laptop quite distracting, so I don't like keeping them around when reading, especially at night.

Another use case I didn't plan for originally but is pretty fun is doing all your Kindle reading in Kindllm by having it write essays on random topics for you.

Re: Show HN: Kindllm – LLM chat optimized for Kindle e-readers

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Post by rexec »

andrewmutz wrote: post #37

I love this, but I wish there was a better way to enter questions. Using the kindle keyboard is not a great experience on my device, and no matter how good the suggested questions get, it wouldn't be able to handle my initial question

Agreed, I definitely write shorter questions on my Kindle than in ChatGPT on my laptop
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