We built Jupiter, a free iPhone app, to be the best way to read and highlight the classic books. We are posting here because we thought some of you might enjoy using it.
We have read many classics--Aurelius, Shakespeare, Emerson, Carlyle, Macaulay, etc.--and love to highlight our favorite parts; however, it's always been difficult to go back and review our highlights because they've been strewn across various print and Kindle versions. Now, with Jupiter, we love having all of highlights in one place, we love being able to search them easily.
We also make it possible to highlight in the browser. And when you create a highlight, you can get a magic link to it to share with your friends. Here is an example from a P.T. Barnum book, which was posted on HN at one point:
"When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once."
Of, if you are in a political debate, why not throw down a link to the Bill of Rights?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 15.1 ms ] threadWe built Jupiter, a free iPhone app, to be the best way to read and highlight the classic books. We are posting here because we thought some of you might enjoy using it.
We have read many classics--Aurelius, Shakespeare, Emerson, Carlyle, Macaulay, etc.--and love to highlight our favorite parts; however, it's always been difficult to go back and review our highlights because they've been strewn across various print and Kindle versions. Now, with Jupiter, we love having all of highlights in one place, we love being able to search them easily.
We also make it possible to highlight in the browser. And when you create a highlight, you can get a magic link to it to share with your friends. Here is an example from a P.T. Barnum book, which was posted on HN at one point:
"When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once."
https://jupiter.ai/books/qvAJ/?hl=x7B
Of, if you are in a political debate, why not throw down a link to the Bill of Rights?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
https://jupiter.ai/books/1X/?hl=z4Y
Clearly, a full book is a unwieldy in a desktop browser; however, we handle searching, place-saving, jumping to highlights, and more well in the app.
It is our hope, perhaps naive, that if we make the classics much more accessible, many more people will read them, or at least parts of them.
We would love to hear any feedback y'all have!