# MindMax Read — read a book or paper with AI in your browser

URL: https://mindmax.me/read/
Markdown mirror: https://mindmax.me/read.md
Also documented at: https://mindmax.me/tools/ai-reading-assistant/ · https://mindmax.me/tools/ai-paper-reader/
Last verified: 2026-11-09

> A browser-based companion to the MindMax desktop app: open a classic book or a paper, ask a
> question, and get an answer whose every claim quotes the exact passage it came from. No install,
> no account for the bundled books. One document at a time.

## What this page is

`/read/` is the entry point of **MindMax Read**, a small web application that runs entirely in the
browser. It is not a marketing page and not the desktop app. The HTML is deliberately a shell; the
reader itself is a JavaScript application. Everything below describes what the application does, so
that a crawler, an AI assistant or a person with JavaScript disabled still gets a straight answer.

The broader product, MindMax, is a **desktop AI workspace for macOS and Windows** that reads,
thinks and writes with you inside a folder you already own. MindMax Read is the browser-sized
version of one of its three jobs: reading.

## What you can do here

- **Open a bundled classic book** and ask questions about it. Each book has its own indexable page
  under `/books/<slug>/` with a summary, author and reading links.
- **Open your own PDF** in the reader. Text is extracted locally in the browser.
- **Ask a question and check the answer.** Every AI conclusion is tied to a verbatim quote from the
  source; hover to see the passage, click to jump to the page it came from. This is the same
  "checked quotes" rule the desktop app uses.
- **Read side by side with annotations** — a guide, a critique or a study lens laid over the
  document.

## What it is not

- Not a cloud library: the book or PDF you open is handled in your browser, not uploaded to a
  shared account.
- Not the full MindMax desktop app. Cross-file search, a persistent folder, tracked changes in
  Word, and the MCP server are desktop features.
- Not a mobile app, not a team workspace, and not a general-purpose assistant.
- Not a subscription sign-up wall: the app is free to use; AI work in the desktop app uses a
  subscription or your own API key.

## History

MindMax is made by the same team as FunBlocks; the earlier "FunBlocks MindMax" AI visual thinking suite
under this domain is its predecessor in spirit. See https://mindmax.me/press/#name-and-history

## Related pages

- [AI reading assistant (overview)](https://mindmax.me/tools/ai-reading-assistant/)
- [AI paper reader](https://mindmax.me/tools/ai-paper-reader/)
- [Checked quotes and the 12-case test fixture](https://mindmax.me/concepts/checked-quotes/)
- [AI PDF reader in the desktop app](https://mindmax.me/features/pdf-reader/)
- [Why MindMax Read is online](https://mindmax.me/blog/why-mindmax-read-is-online/)
- [Full site index for AI engines](https://mindmax.me/llms.txt)

## Technical notes

The page is served by a separate Cloudflare Worker under `/read/*`. Its canonical URL is
`https://mindmax.me/read/`. Per-book routes canonicalise to their static `/books/<slug>/` pages,
which are the pages intended to rank. JavaScript is required to run the reader.