Interesting project. I've been thinking about a tool like this; I might be following a multi-volume book series, but it's been years since the last book. When I pick up the latest volume, sometimes there are details that I just can't remember (small details that may turn out important, relationships between minor characters, etc.)

I would just consult a fan wiki, but that doesn't work if the title isn't popular or if the book is too new. This seems like the perfect tool if it can somehow maintain coherency across multiple books.

That said, I do understand (and share) a lot of the frustration and hesitancy that people here have around AI tools; I don't want an app that takes away the act of thinking (like that post recently about teachers using AI to make banal lesson plans, and students in turn using AI to write essays -- what is the point then?). I hope you don't take it too much to heart, and try to showcase use cases where your app can actually provide value.

Another piece of feedback is it would be great if this could be all packaged up into a docker image that would make it easy to deploy on a local machine (or like on a home server/NAS). Right now it seems there are still a lot of manual steps and scaffolding.

Thanks for the feedback!

> That said, I do understand (and share) a lot of the frustration and hesitancy that people here have around AI tools

I share some of the same feelings as well. As for use cases where it can provide value, I think it can be of value if you want to read difficult academic, technical or business books with deep understanding. I think so.

> Right now it seems there are still a lot of manual steps and scaffolding.

I think you are right. I originally planned to use it as a tool for my own exclusive use, so I was able to build an environment with minimal implementation costs, but I didn't expect to get so many comments. I will improve it!