We don't put AI between you and your books.

When reading apps started running their members through AI models, the results ranged from forgettable to genuinely hurtful. Readers were handed "summaries" of their year that misjudged them, stereotyped them, and in some cases insulted them, all generated from the most personal data a reader gives an app: what they chose to read. The lesson we took from that moment was simple. Your reading life is not raw material for a model.

What "no AI" means here

It means we don't generate recommendations, recaps, or summaries from your data. It means your books, ratings, notes, and club conversations are never sent to a model for training or analysis. It means the discussion guides you see were written or curated by people, not produced on the fly by software.

What we do instead

Calm, human tools. Ranked-choice voting decided by your club, not an algorithm. Discussion guides chosen by a host or a librarian. A shelf that shows what you read, without a machine telling you what it means. If the trade is slightly less novelty for a lot more trust, we'll take that trade every time.