I recently finished a book I was looking forward to but wound up really disliking [0]. Throughout the book I found myself saying "wtf?" and I occasionally would complain to my spouse about it. After I finished reading, I went to Goodreads and enjoyed the schadenfreud of seeing how many other reviewers had the same reaction and reactions as me. I do wonder if a tool like this could help me experience something like this DURING the reading of the book rather than after, but I also worry about it lessening the book reading experience, contributing to attention drain, or lessening the experience of finishing reading a book and talking with others about it.
0 - Brandon Sanderson's Wind and Truth
Thanks for the fantastic feedback! That 'wtf?' moment you described is exactly the kind of problem I was hoping to tackle with BookWith.
You raise a really important point about the risk of lessening the reading experience. That's something I've thought about a lot. My personal experience while using it has been that it can actually deepen immersion, since I'm able to look up a word or phrase instantly without breaking my flow and switching to a browser.
You're absolutely right that this is a new kind of reading experience powered by LLMs, and there are bound to be some downsides. I hope it's an interesting experiment, and I'd be thrilled if you gave it a try.
Thanks again for the valuable perspective!
Did you just reply to feedback about your own product with a fucking LLM? God I hate this timeline.
English is not my first language and I am unfamiliar with it, so I use LLM as a translation tool. I apologize if I have caused any discomfort.
You shouldn’t have to do this but it may be worth adding a note at the end of a comment about this here - accusations of someone being or using LLMs are often thrown out and very rudely (even if correct about the llm use, I don’t think that’s an excuse).
Thanks for building and sharing something.
Thank you for your instruction. I will be careful in the future.