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.
41 Comments
stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net · 79 pts · 333d
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".
nicerdicer@feddit.org · 39 pts · 333d
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.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 333d
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.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 333d
And my wank mags. Try and make me verify my age to look at pictures of boobies will you?!
Dasus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 333d
Pretty sure those were always age restricted unless you stole them. And since they were usually on the highest shelves, the kids wouldn't easily reach them to steal them.
And the cashier would prolly ask for your ID.
Ofc you could alway find some in their natural habitat; the woods. A discarded and perhaps slightly sticky edition.
Eq0@literature.cafe · 6 pts · 333d
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
shalafi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 333d
I have a $25 shit tablet from Amazon and pirate epubs. They're also backed up a few ways on my network and offsite.
jacksilver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 333d
Haha losers, I self host my digital library!
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 333d
This "ai bookmark" has somehow taken the throne for the stupidest ai device - and that's a crowded room of challengers
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 333d
Can I just have the bookmark read everything for me? I’ll just melt into a puddle of lazy stupid.
LoreSoong@startrek.website · 29 pts · 333d
tries it for smut AI bookmark:"I cannot read this because It violates our content policy."
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 4 pts · 333d
And there's gonna be ads every 5 minutes. What a fantastic experience.
nicerdicer@feddit.org · 9 pts · 333d
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.
FrederikNJS@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 333d
Have you heard about the concept called "an audio book"?
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 333d
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.
FrederikNJS@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 333d
🤣 Ah! Voluntary vegetative state...
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 333d
just use the receipt from the physical book purchase from your local used bookshop. or buy a bookmark from them.
useless trash, that's all this is. remember to cancel all subscriptions and stop consuming. let them feel it... doubt it'll happen because people are EASILY swayed with junk and like being abused apparently. Sigh... world's so bad
Triumph@fedia.io · 12 pts · 333d
Buy a bookmark? For like $5? Use the $5 bill instead, and have some emergency coffee money with your book at all times.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 333d
yeah, to support local businesses that sell actual books
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 1 pts · 333d
I've ... ah ... spent significantly more than $5 on a bookmark before.
Nikls94@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 333d
I made one in school for my mum back in… 2003? She still uses it
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 6 pts · 333d
Or make a bookmark! My friends have done that and made them all artistic and stuff
DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 333d
My favourite bookstores just give you a bookmark with every purchase. Even if you order from them.
dkppunk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
My favorite bookstores do that too. I was going to one so often, I had to ask them to not give me a new one because I already had 20 at home lol
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 333d
What the fuck kind of statement is this? The Humane AI Pin was a disastrous failure. Maybe a hundred people actually bought one. And that's the absolute best example the writer can come up with for how AI is supposedly "infiltrating consumer hardware"? And then they can't even come up with a second example so they just throw up their hands and say "or, y'know, like the stock market." Yes, the stock market, famously a piece of consumer hardware.
nicerdicer@feddit.org · 17 pts · 333d
Imagine this: You pick up the book with the bookmark in place and due to its top-heavy design it slips out of the book and shatters on the ground. Now your 129-$-bookmark is damaged beyond repair and you don't know where to pick up reading!
sidebro@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 333d
But hey, at least you get to read the book as the author meant it now, and not through the lense of AI.... :D
cdzero@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 333d
$129 a year...
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 333d
I can read just fine, thank you
Kirk@startrek.website · 13 pts · 333d
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.
Eq0@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 333d
/s ? Please let there be an /s ?
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 333d
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.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 333d
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.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 13 pts · 333d
Finally, someone has thought up a product more stupid and overpriced for what it is than juicero
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 1 pts · 333d
Yeah, this is competing with Juicero for sheer pointlessness.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 333d
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?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 333d
The bookmark is for making money.
vane@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 333d
I will buy million of those. Please make it fast before I change my mind.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 333d
Better link: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/ai-powered-bookmark-wants-to-revolutionize-the-way-you-read-usd129-mark-1-offers-ai-generated-summaries
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 333d
If it turns books into audio books without hallucinations that change the words, it's great
Reygle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
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".