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

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Post by rexec » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 2:15 PM UTC

Show HN: Kindllm – LLM chat optimized for Kindle e-readers
kindllm.app

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Post by rexec » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 2:15 PM UTC

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.

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Post by yearofmoo » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 2:24 PM UTC

It's a bit unclear how to use it. It's not obvious that you need to visit the same webpage. Maybe make the URL more visible? Autoplay would be nice too.

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Post by tommikaikkonen » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 2:27 PM UTC

The demo video is great, I would consider putting it higher up on the page and possibly on autoplay. I wonder when Amazon will integrate LLM into the native reader. Nice work!

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Post by raimo » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 2:27 PM UTC

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.

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Post by rexec » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 2:33 PM UTC

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!

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Post by rexec » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 2:37 PM UTC

tommikaikkonen wrote: post #4

The demo video is great, I would consider putting it higher up on the page and possibly on autoplay. I wonder when Amazon will integrate LLM into the native reader. Nice work!

Thanks! Yeah the landing page might need some work

re: Native LLM: The fact that Amazon just upgraded the web browser shows that they at least have some engineers working on Kindles, so one can always hope

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Post by carlosjobim » Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 12:17 PM UTC

Congratulations! Very cool stuff.

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Post by collegeburner » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 4:32 AM UTC

rexec wrote: post #7

tommikaikkonen wrote: post #4

The demo video is great, I would consider putting it higher up on the page and possibly on autoplay. I wonder when Amazon will integrate LLM into the native reader. Nice work!

Thanks! Yeah the landing page might need some work re: Native LLM: The fact that Amazon just upgraded the web browser shows that they at least have some engineers working on Kindles, so one can always hope

and yet, there are some obvious things on my scribe that they haven't done:

- no way to disable auto-rotate

- can only write on PDFs from send-to-kindle, but that's limited to I think 50MB so textbooks etc. are not an option

- only works with audible audiobooks, no normal m4b supported

i believe the web browser is also still crazy cut down. i like the device but they're evidently understaffed on software

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Post by CGamesPlay » Thu, Jan 18, 2024, 5:34 AM UTC

Off topic, but why is the demo video so much brighter than the surrounding background? The page has a white background, but the video is substantially brighter.