BookWith

BookWith is an AI-powered ePub reader.

It helps you read with:

• AI chat based on the current page
• highlights and notes
• memory across past conversations
• semantic search across reading history

Key Features

• AI Reading Assistant: Ask questions while reading and get context-aware answers.
• Smart Annotation: Highlight text, add notes, and reuse them in AI chat.
• Memory System: Keeps short-term and long-term context for continuity.
• Semantic Search: Find related ideas across books, notes, and chats.
• AI Podcast Generation: Convert book content into audio summaries.

Quick Start (Local Development)

1. Install dependencies from the repo root:

   pnpm i

2. Set up API environment:

   cd apps/api
   cp src/config/.env.example src/config/.env

3. Start required Docker services:

   make docker.up

4. Run backend API:

   make configure
   make run

5. In another terminal, run frontend:

   cd apps/reader
   pnpm dev

Common Commands

From repo root:

pnpm dev
pnpm build
pnpm lint

API:

cd apps/api
make run
make lint

Reader:

cd apps/reader
pnpm dev
pnpm ts:check

Tech Stack

• Backend: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic, Weaviate, LangChain
• Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SWR, ePub.js
• Monorepo: Turbo + pnpm workspaces