Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I built Novelens.ai because I kept doing the same thing with long books: buy them, start them, get 80 pages in, lose the thread of who's who, and quietly let them fall off my nightstand. It wasn't that the books were bad — it's that going from zero to "fully in" on a 500-page classic takes a kind of momentum that's easy to lose in a busy week. I didn't want another tool that just spits out a summary and calls it done — that felt like giving up on the book, not finishing it. So Novelens.ai starts you on a faithful, warm abridgment that keeps the real voice and plot, gives you a living map of who's who so you're never lost when a name comes back 300 pages later, and lets you ask a reading companion questions mid-chapter without ever losing your page. The approach changed a lot as I built it. I originally thought a shorter cut alone would be enough, but early readers kept getting hung up on characters — "wait, who is this again?" — so the character map became just as central as the abridgment. And the reading companion came out of watching people want to ask a quick question without breaking their reading flow, the way you'd nudge a friend reading next to you. Every public-domain classic is already loaded and ready to open, and you can upload your own book and customize its map and abridgment too. Start free, no card required — would love to hear which "I've always meant to read that" book you try first.

Novelens.ai

Finish the books you've always meant to read

Finish the books you've always meant to read