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AI-powered bookmark wants to revolutionize the way you read

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AI-powered bookmark wants to revolutionize the way you read — $129 Mark 1 offers AI-generated summaries

Finally: the days where one has to read a book in one continious session are numbered. With this bookmark one can interrupt reading a book at any time. Also, the bookmark offers you an AI summary of the things that just have been read.

This is such an over-engineered and useless piece of ~~shit~~ tech - so ridiculous that this has to be satire. At least, this still seems to be a concept. Although the article has been posted in March 2025, I have not found any evidence that this is a joke, unfortunately. They seem to be serious with it.

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In the last few years, people have been pointing out an emergent benefit of ink on dead tree books: there are no banner ads, no tracking cookies, no social media integration, no gamification, no information about your reading habits sent to Google's data mines. When you buy a physical book, you own it, and nothing you do with it can be tracked, monetized, advertised, or subscriptionized.
And I bet some tech bro heard that and said "Hold my beer".
- And that's the problem with books - from a tech bros perspective. Once bought, books can't be monetized any further. They can even be shared at no cost. If libraries weren't a thing already, their introduction today wouldn't be possible.
- Biggest reason I absolutely LOVE my manga collection. No way an advertiser can insert their bullshit after I've purchased a physical volume or collection.
  
  And my wank mags. Try and make me verify my age to look at pictures of boobies will you?!
- That’s why i dislike reading on kindle. The comfort still outweighs the cons, but when it gives me “estimated reading times” my skin crawls
- Haha losers, I self host my digital library!
This "ai bookmark" has somehow taken the throne for the stupidest ai device - and that's a crowded room of challengers
AI is infiltrating consumer hardware, no matter where you might look. From the Humane AI Pin (whose parent company was sold to HP last week for $116 million) to news of AI models disrupting stock markets, it's hard to disconnect from just how ubiquitous AI has become.
What the fuck kind of statement is this? The Humane AI Pin was a disastrous failure. Maybe a hundred people actually bought one. And that's the absolute best example the writer can come up with for how AI is supposedly "infiltrating consumer hardware"? And then they can't even come up with a second example so they just throw up their hands and say "or, y'know, like the stock market." Yes, the stock market, famously a piece of consumer hardware.
Can I just have the bookmark read everything for me? I’ll just melt into a puddle of lazy stupid.
- tries it for smut AI bookmark:"I cannot read this because It violates our content policy."
  
  And there's gonna be ads every 5 minutes. What a fantastic experience.
- No, but the second iteration, Bookmark2, will be much thinner and have a longer battery life.
  Since that bookmark is supposed to give you an AI summary of what you have read before the bookmarks placing, just place the bookmark at the last page - it probaby will summarize the whole book for you then.
- Have you heard about the concept called "an audio book"?
  
  I don’t want it to read to me, I want it to read for me. No thoughts, head empty. Let the AI think for me. I am unnecessary.
Imagine this: You pick up the book with the bookmark in place and due to its top-heavy design it slips out of the book and shatters on the ground. Now your 129-$-bookmark is damaged beyond repair and you don't know where to pick up reading!
- But hey, at least you get to read the book as the author meant it now, and not through the lense of AI.... :D
- $129 a year...
I can read just fine, thank you
Finally, someone has thought up a product more stupid and overpriced for what it is than juicero
- Yeah, this is competing with Juicero for sheer pointlessness.
I will buy million of those. Please make it fast before I change my mind.
Love this. I don't want to read books. I want to have read books. I heard that if you read a certain amount of books that when you die you get an achievement.
Been saying for years I wish I could spend less time lost in a good book and more time making my boss rich.
- /s ? Please let there be an /s ?
  
  Despite Poe's law, I'm reasonably confident OP is in fact being sarcastic. But because of Poe's law, we'll probably never know for certain.
- I mean, there are definitely some books I wish I could have read without having to suffer through the process of actually reading them. Looking at you, Three Body Problem.
  But the last thing I want is an LLM giving me a badly mangled, partly invented Sunday of them.
You literally have to tell it what page you're on and what book you're reading. Then it sends it to the phone you already have.
What the fuck is the bookmark for?
- The bookmark is for making money.
If it turns books into audio books without hallucinations that change the words, it's great
Better link: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/ai-powered-bookmark-wants-to-revolutionize-the-way-you-read-usd129-mark-1-offers-ai-generated-summaries
I've got the perfect name for such a product. When someone is an idiotic loser I call them a "Shit-gibbon".
This? "Shit-ribbon".

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