Readplace: An AI Reading Assistant That Helps You Read More, Not Less

Summary (TL;DR)

Most "AI reading assistants" replace reading with summaries and algorithmic curation. Readplace works the other way. It generates a TL;DR for every saved article so you can triage your list faster, then read the real thing. The AI does not curate, hide, or reorder your content. You save what you want, scan summaries to prioritise, and read in a clean reader view. The workflow is save, summarise, triage, read.

The phrase "AI reading assistant" has come to mean a tool that reads for you. It summarises articles you will not open, mails you a digest an algorithm picked, and reshapes your feed around whatever is trending this week. That is replacement wearing the costume of help.

A reading assistant should do the opposite. It should take the friction out of deciding what to read, so the time you have goes to reading instead of sorting through a backlog that keeps growing faster than you can clear it. The aim is to read the right articles in full.

How Readplace uses AI

Readplace generates a TL;DR summary for every article you save. That summary is a triage tool, not a stand-in for the article, and it tells you just enough to decide whether to read something now, later, or not at all before you commit a minute of your attention to it.

There are no auto-curated feeds, no digest emails, no "here's what you should read today" nudges, and no ranking model deciding what reaches your eyes.

You save what catches your attention, Readplace summarises it, and when a piece looks worth your time you open it and read the real thing in a clean reader view with the ads and cookie banners stripped out so nothing competes with the words on the page.

You keep control of what you read.

Readplace doesn't decide what you read

Take a typical AI reader. It sits between you and your articles, filtering and ranking until the list you see is the model's idea of what you want rather than the list you built, and give it a few weeks and your reading narrows down to whatever the algorithm happens to reward.

Readplace draws the line in a different place. Every article in your list is one you put there.

The summary helps you scan that list faster, but it does not delete, hide, or reorder a single item. The order is the order you chose, and the list stays yours.

That is a deliberate design choice.

An AI reading assistant that decides what you should read is just another feed algorithm.

You already have plenty of those.

The loop: Save, Summarise, Triage, Read

The workflow has 4 steps, and you stay in charge of every one.

1. Save. Hit the browser extension on any page with a click, a keyboard shortcut, or a right-click, and the article lands in your reading list.

2. Summarise. Readplace writes a TL;DR for each saved article, pulling out the key points so you know what it covers before you commit to reading it.

3. Triage. Read the TL;DRs to sort your list into read now, save for later, and skip. You do the sorting, not a ranking model.

4. Read. Open the article in a clean reader view with the ads, pop-ups, and cookie banners gone. Just the content, set for comfortable reading, dark mode included.

The summary does its work at step 3. It speeds up the decision, and the reading is still yours to do.

For a closer look at how the TL;DR works under the hood, see How AI TL;DR Actually Works in Readplace.

If you want an AI reading assistant that helps you read more of the right things, give Readplace a try.