Why I built this
I've always been wary of difficult texts. When I finally tackled Sun Tzu's Art of War, I found myself laboriously copying and pasting every passage into ChatGPT to make sense of the dense prose and relate it to my own experience. The conversation ended up considerably longer than the short book itself.
War and Peace was even harder. Despite being fluent in Russian, I couldn't keep track of the characters, events, and names. Oh god, the names—every character has three of them and a nickname.
Somewhere in that struggle, I realized: this is how I want to read all complex books. Slowly. With contemplation. With integration. Not racing to the finish, but sitting with each passage until it becomes part of me.
So I built Slow Reader.