I’ve added a feature called Reading Guides, which you’ll find in a new “Guide” tab in the Reader page sidebar. It reads the whole book and generates three things, written in your own language:
Background. A short briefing on the real-world context the book leans on, its history, places and people, with no spoilers about the story itself. If a book doesn’t need any, this stays to a sentence or two.
A glossary. The key characters, places and other things worth knowing, each listed with the other names the text uses for them, so nicknames, titles and alternate spellings all point to the same entry. You can also click one of these names in the text itself to pull up its entry instead of the usual translation.
A plot summary that unlocks as you read. A section by section recap, paced through the book and roughly aligned to its chapters. Each section stays locked until you’ve read that far, so you can check you understood what just happened without spoiling what’s coming. The section you’re in is marked “Reading now”, and you can click through the lock on a later section if you really want to.
A guide is generated once per book and shared, so if someone else is reading the same book in the same language it’s already there, and it loads instantly the next time you open the book. (Friendly reminder: never share in-copyright works on the public libraries!) It’s available to Premium and Premium Plus subscribers.
Please let me know how it works for you. I’d particularly like to know whether the glossary picks the right entries, whether the plot sections land in sensible places, and whether the background is actually useful.
