Good progress with @GetLexApp this week. Up to 1.1k users, 1.5M books, 30k audiobooks, 2.5k shelves.
Shipped since last update:
-infinitely scrollable home page (audiobooks, quotes, opening lines, summaries, illustrations)
-audiobook auto-captioning
-audiobook auto-ambience
-huge improvements to Lex AI (smarter model, RAG system, db enrichment)
-bilingual mode (read in 2 languages at once)
-speedreading (word-level/sentence-level Rapid Serial Visual Presentation)
-browse/read/listen without signup
-offline mode
https://t.co/HRkQAT6yDH
@nealstephenson You work with the AI to create write your own book, for you. Probably not a good book, but one that says exactly what you want to know about.
Here's the lineup for the first few weeks of @bookclubpodhq, if anybody wants to read ahead. (But you don't have to!)
17 February Wuthering Heights
24 February Never Let Me Go
3 March The Great Gatsby
10 March Hamnet
17 March Nineteen Eighty-Four
24 March The Secret History