Interactive Reading Apps
Resources

What can you keep and come back to? Our resources

Resources are the pages built to be bookmarked: a comparison table of AI reading companions, every app's App Store privacy label side by side, a checklist for choosing a tool, a bank of spoiler-safe questions, a dated timeline of the category, and a glossary. Each one is dated and lists its sources.

Checked 30 October 2026 · The Companion Desk · Desk review

If you only open one resource, make it the comparison table. For definitions of terms such as page lock, chapter lock and whole-book mode, see the glossary.

Index
5 pages
  1. 01AI reading companions comparedAn unranked, fact-by-fact table of AI reading companions: formats, how each finds your place, spoiler protection, chat, platforms, price, region and age rating. Checked 2026-10-30.30 October 2026
  2. 02Reading app privacy labelsThe App Store privacy labels of seven AI reading tools side by side: data used to track you, data linked to you, and what it means for page photos and pasted text. Copied 2026-10-30.30 October 2026
  3. 03AI reading companion checklistA printable checklist for choosing an AI reading companion or Kindle AI feature: place-finding, spoiler lock, accuracy, formats, price, privacy, authors' rights and age rating.30 October 2026
  4. 04Spoiler-safe question bankForty questions you can ask an AI reading companion or chatbot about a book you are mid-way through, sorted by purpose, plus the questions to avoid and safer rewrites.30 October 2026
  5. 05Interactive reading timelineEvery dated event in AI reading companions on one line: Fable's AI summaries pulled, Kindle Recaps and Ask this Book, the Authors Guild statement, Magic Bookmark and Thus Far launches.30 October 2026