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24 alternatives to Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3

So far I've used it to reference ideas from books I've read before. I've also used it to explore books I have not read before by asking the bot questions. Some people have told me they use it like a reading companion. They pause while reading the book if they have a question, and use Konjer to answer it.

Konjer transforms books into interactive chatbots powered by GPT-3, allowing users to ask questions about book content in real-time. Readers can reference ideas from books they've already finished, explore unfamiliar… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3 launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    ChatGPT▲1,643

    A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…

    2022 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT, but for books.

    2023 · gptbook.club · its alternatives →

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    Turn your Notion documents into AI bots powered by ChatGPT

    2023 · thesamur.ai · its alternatives →

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    BookRead▲415

    AI-powered E-Reader that makes reading effortless

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…

    2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es · its alternatives →

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    Talk to your documents

    2023 · thesamur.ai · its alternatives →

  7. 7IW

    Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations. The plot was sourced from a group of friends.

    2023 · adventure-of-penelope.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  8. 8IB

    Hi HN, I built this out of frustration of the evergrowing list of AI models and features to try and to fit my workflow. The visual approach clicks for me so i went with it, it provides more freedom and control of the outcome, because predictable results and increased productivity is what I’m after when using conversational AI. The app is packed with features, my most used are prompt library, voice input and text search, narration is useful too. The app is local-first and works right in the browser, no sign up needed and it's absolutely free to try. BYOAK – bring your own API Keys. Let me…

    2024 · grafychat.com · its alternatives →

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    Book recommendations powered by OpenAI

    2020 · mostrecommendedbooks.com · its alternatives →

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    Any Ideas/Suggestions are welcome :)

    2024 · mitenmit.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Game genie for ChatGPT

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I've been working on BookWith, an open-source e-book reader that integrates AI as your reading companion. The problem: Traditional e-readers are passive. When you encounter something unclear, you have to context-switch to search for it. Your highlights and notes remain isolated, and you can't easily connect ideas across different books. My solution: BookWith embeds an AI that maintains full context of what you're reading. It features: - Context-aware AI chat: Ask questions about the current page/chapter and get instant answers - AI podcast generation: Automatically converts book…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Let readers chat with your archive in their ChatGPT app

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Baron AI▲330

    Use ChatGPT in any app, natively on Windows, Mac and Linux

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Experience classics anew with AI driven narratives

    2023 · book-gpts.com · its alternatives →

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    Use ChatGPT to become a top 1% copywriter

    2023 · pascio.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17CB

    This weekend wanted to try out the streaming ChatGPT API. As test project, created a simple website, which allows you to create whole books by providing just the title (with optional extra instructions). Given the title of the book, table of contents, chapters and sections with text content are generated. All books are listed on the home page, sorted into topic categories. As a bonus, when reading a specific section of a chapter, you can use the chat interface to ask for clarifications, request more content, list relevant topics, etc. The system does quite well with knowledge based books…

    2023 · books-by-ai.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Read or listen to your book directly from Telegram!

    2018 · telegram.me · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT for Research: Find answers, draft content and search

    2023 · researchgpt.com · its alternatives →

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    OP here. This comment contains SPOILERS so try the dystopia simulator first before reading further! I built "WeChatGPT+" in December on top of GPT-3. It was pretty surreal when OpenAI released an actual product named "ChatGPT Plus" a few months after that. Then the Microsoft partnership was announced, Bing AI was released, and marketing materials were leaked indicating that Bing AI would start including advertisements within the chat responses. Reality imitates fiction, I guess. Today - literally a few hours ago - OpenAI announced public ChatGPT API with 10% the cost of GPT-3. I immediately…

    2023 · future.attejuvonen.fi · its alternatives →

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    Just provide a brief description, choose a language and let AI write the book for you. Here are a few examples of generated books (but it is more fun to create your own): 1. The Rise of AI: A Journey Through History and Progress - https://booksbyai.app/OFdwhGb7280LD1IQ 2. Time Mastery - https://booksbyai.app/Ksq1L2OEqY1IyubO 3. Open Source Success - https://booksbyai.app/tVpZy3wkQoDtwKOs 4. The Cosmic Blueprint - https://booksbyai.app/fLaciiXJxDLPkkn7 5. Ancient Greek Technological Triumphs -…

    2023 · booksbyai.app · its alternatives →

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    Sona▲128

    GPT based book recommendation assistant

    2022 · readthistwice.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24DQ

    Hello fellow hackers, we made a site that gets GPT to answer your question using the info on a webpage you specify or document you upload (e.g., a large textbook .pdf file). Background: When ChatGPT came out, I had the idea of having it pull answers from my stereo receiver's annoyingly dense 32 page manual. My weekend project prototype proceeded to surprise with great answers—just like what we've all experienced by now. My co-founder thought we should productize it, and make it easy to use online. So here we are with a very early beta! (Try it on a HN thread...)

    2023 · klavier.ai · its alternatives →

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