Original Summary

Perch is a reading companion for your PDFs. It reads the book to you, and it understands the book too. Listen A natural voice that runs on your Mac, highlighting each sentence as it reads Skips page numbers, running headers, and footnotes, and shows you what it set aside "Read me the next 40 minutes and skip the citations": reading sessions in plain words Ask Ask anything about the book, by typing or by holding a key and speaking Answers cite the pages they come from; click to jump there and hear the passage Right-click any sentence to have it explained, or to open whoever it mentions Explore, up to your place Recap: last session, this chapter, or everything so far, and what's still open Chapter by chapter summaries of what you've read People, places, and ideas: where each appears across the book, and who they are Timeline: events as told, or in the order they actually happened Relationships: who is what to whom, and who appears together Arguments: for non-fiction, the main claims and the reasons behind them Connections: how the passage you're reading echoes earlier ones Glossary: the author's own definitions kept apart from background notes Review: questions on what you've read, with your answers checked against the book All of it stops at your page by default, so nothing gets spoiled. Switch to "Whole book" whenever you want. Plus: a library with shelves, saved passages with notes, and it remembers your place in every book. Reading and the voice work offline; asking and exploring need a connection. [Price / beta] [Link] I'd love feedback, especially on which books or PDFs trip it up.   submitted by   /u/RegularBed5273 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/27 14:44:24