Ask This Book

Principles

Trustworthy by design.

The choices behind how AI works inside Ask This Book — written down, so they can be held to.

  1. 1

    Grounded in the text

    Every answer is derived from the source book. The text is the model's authority, not the other way around.

  2. 2

    No hallucinated answers

    If the book doesn't address something, the answer says so. We'd rather be useful than fluent.

  3. 3

    Private means private

    Your Private Library is yours. It is never shared, published, or surfaced to other readers.

  4. 4

    Books are not training data

    Uploaded books and Official AI Editions are never used to train foundation AI models.

  5. 5

    Authors first

    Editions are verified. Insights about reader questions belong to the rights holder, not us.

“A summary that invents details is worse than no summary at all.”

Calm intelligence, in service of understanding.