AI reading assistant
Ask the whole paper or book. Every answer points back to the page.
Upload a paper, a long report or an ebook. MindMax reads it the way a careful reader would — contents first, then the sections that matter — and answers with the exact sentences it relied on, one click from where they are.
- Price
- Free · asking needs a free account
- Files
- PDF, EPUB, Kindle (MOBI / AZW3), Word, PowerPoint, TXT, Markdown
- Your file
- Stays in this browser — the text goes to the model only to answer, and is not stored
What people read with it
Anything long enough that you would rather ask than skim.
Research papers
The method, the result, the limitation the authors admit — each answer quotes the paper and gives the page.
AI paper reader →Long reports
Annual reports, white papers, policy documents: find what a hundred pages actually commit to, with the sentence that says it.
Books
EPUB and Kindle books open in the browser. Ask questions that span chapters and jump to each passage.
Online EPUB reader →Classic books, ready to read
A shelf of public-domain books is already prepared, with chapter notes and answered questions — open one without uploading anything.
It reads, rather than searches
Most document chat cuts a file into fragments and fetches the ones that look like your question. MindMax reads by structure, the way you would.
- Cut the document into chunks
- Fetch the chunks whose words look like the question
- Answer from whatever came back
- Miss answers spread across chapters, or worded differently
- Look at the contents and what each section covers
- Decide which sections to open, and show you which
- Read those sections back in full and answer
- Check every quotation against the text
Reading tools
Each one opens MindMax Read in your browser.
Read papers and books with AI
Upload a paper PDF and ask it anything: the AI reads the whole paper, and every answer quotes the passage and the page.
Open an EPUB or Kindle book in your browser and ask the whole book — answers quote the passage and jump to it.
In your browser, or across a whole folder
The browser reader is one document at a time, on purpose. The desktop app reads the same way across everything you work with.
- One paper, report or book at a time
- Ask questions; every answer quotes the page
- Save answers as notes, or export Markdown
- Nothing to install
- Ask across a whole folder of papers, books and notes
- AI notes down the margin, chapter by chapter
- Highlights and notes saved as Markdown in your folder
- Scanned PDFs made readable, documents translated in full
Where it gets hard
- Asking needs a free account
Uploading, reading and the sample books need no account. Asking questions needs a free account, and answers use the AI allowance in your plan.
- PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Word, PowerPoint, TXT and Markdown
Excel spreadsheets and scanned PDFs are not supported in the browser. The desktop app opens spreadsheets and can recognise the text of a scan first.
- One document at a time
Each paper or book is its own conversation. Asking across several documents at once is what the desktop app is for.
- Your file stays in this browser
Uploaded files are stored in this browser only. To answer, the relevant text is sent to the model; the text and your questions are not stored on our servers.
Common questions
What is MindMax Read?
The online side of MindMax reading: an AI reading assistant in the browser for papers, reports and books. It reads the whole text by its structure and answers with quotes that point back to the page.
Is it free?
Yes. Uploading, reading and the sample books are free with no account. Asking questions needs a free account and uses the weekly AI allowance of the Free plan.
Can I open a document from MindMax Read in the desktop app?
Yes. A sample book opens in the desktop app with “Open in MindMax”. Your own files are already on your computer — drag them into the desktop app.
Ask the next long thing you have to read.
Reading is free with no account; asking needs a free account.
Want this across a whole folder, with notes kept as files? Get the desktop app →