Reading & research

AI Reader

Search Gutenberg, Open Library and Wikipedia, then read public-domain books inside the app.

Reading & research

AI Reader running in mChatAI+ for macOS

What it does

The Home screen opens with no network call: 90 hand-picked Project Gutenberg titles across ten genre shelves — Horror, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Romance, Fantasy, Philosophy, Humor, Children, Classics — plus a "Featured" book, and an "Open Library" shelf that fills in afterwards
Search queries three catalogues in parallel — Gutendex (Project Gutenberg), Open Library and Wikipedia — with a "Sources:" row of toggles to switch each one off and re-run the search
Gutenberg books open as clean reading text: everything before the *** START OF line and after *** END OF is dropped, and the old ~70-column hard wrapping is rewritten into real paragraphs before you see it
"Add to Library" downloads the book's text and saves it, so it opens later without a connection; removing the book deletes that cached copy
An "AI Actions" menu in the reader's toolbar offers "Summarize with AI", "Translate to Spanish", "Translate to French" and "Clean Up Text"
A focus mode (tooltip: "Focus Mode") enlarges the type and narrows the column

Open AI Reader and click "Search" in the left sidebar.
Type a title or author into the search box and press Return; use the "Sources:" toggles to narrow it to one catalogue.
Click a result to open the reader, then click "AI Actions" in the reader's toolbar and choose "Summarize with AI".
Click the bookmark icon in the reader's toolbar to add the book to "Library" for offline reading.

Audio Books — LibriVox audiobooks were split into their own applet; a code comment marks AI Reader as text-only now, and its offline download explicitly skips LibriVox items
For You — closing a document emits a cross-app interest signal via UsageThumbprintHelpers.emitReaderRead

AI Reader ships with mChatAI+. Native macOS app. Your own API keys, or fully on-device. Get mChatAI+