ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-01-11

Ask questions about the books in your library

ReadingRate has a chat that answers from your own library rather than from the internet. You do not pick a book first: ask a question and it searches across the books you own, the passages you have saved, your journal entries, and how far into each book you are. If a question would give away plot in a book you are part-way through, it stops and tells you which books are affected before it answers. It is part of membership.

Available on web and iOS.

The distinction worth having here is retrieval. A general assistant answers about a book from what it absorbed about that book. This one answers from the text in front of it, pulled out of the copy you uploaded, alongside the lines you marked and the note you wrote in chapter four.

It also knows which book you probably mean, because it knows which one you read last night and the page you stopped on. What did I miss in the last chapter is a question that only works if something knows what your last chapter was.

Conversations are kept, titled, and labelled with the books they touched, so a thought you had three months ago is findable. Ones held in Claude or ChatGPT through the AI connection appear in the same list.

What it can't do

  • Membership only. Free accounts get no AI replies at all.
  • Fifty AI replies a month, and no more than ten requests in any minute.
  • Answering from a book's own text needs that book's text in ReadingRate. Without it the answer comes from general knowledge, like any assistant's.
  • The spoiler check is a warning, not a wall. It asks whether to continue and then answers in full.
  • The sources behind an answer are listed in the iOS app. The web version does not show them yet.
  • A model asked for a quotation will produce one whether or not it exists. Check anything attributed to the text against the text.

Questions people ask

Can I chat with an AI about a book I'm reading?
Yes. ReadingRate's Insight Lab answers from the books in your own library, your saved quotes and your reading position, and it warns you before answering something that would spoil a book you are part-way through. It is a membership feature.
Will it spoil the book I'm halfway through?
Not without asking first. If your question would reveal plot from beyond your current page, it stops and shows you which books are affected before answering.

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