Reading with the door open

Talk to the people in your book.

Green Room is where you step backstage of the book you're reading and talk to its people — out loud, or in text. They've read exactly as far as you have. Not a page more. And it works on the books you already own.

Beta invites go out in waitlist order. One devlog email a month, at most — or just read the devlog.

A moment in the Green Room

Pride and Prejudice · Jane Austen

Elizabeth Bennet

As she is at your reading place

You

Do you marry Mr. Darcy?

Elizabeth

“Marry Mr. Darcy! I have had one dance and one insult from the gentleman. If there are pages where I change my mind, neither of us has read them yet.”

Her knowledge stops where your reading does.

Illustrative conversation. The app answers from the passages you have read.

One app, everywhere you read macOS · Windows · Linux · iOS · Android

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Stores at launch — the beta ships from the waitlist first.

The Green Room

Backstage of the book you're reading.

In a theatre, the green room is where the cast waits, just off stage. Every book has one now. Walk in mid-chapter: the people of the book are there, as themselves, knowing what they know so far — and nothing else.

green-room·ing v. — reading with the door open: pausing mid-page to step backstage and talk to the people in the book. Hence the address — greenroom.ing.

Anyone who has walked on

Address any character, the narrator, the implied author — or the book itself. If someone hasn't appeared yet, they aren't in the room. That's not a limitation; that's the point.

Come as yourself — or don't

Visit as yourself and she knows she's being visited. Enter as someone from the cast and it becomes a scene: the White Rabbit may address Alice.

Meet them again at p.340

The person you talked to at p.61 and the person you meet at p.340 are not quite the same person. Every conversation is kept in your margin, anchored to the page where it happened.

Voice

Out loud, in her voice.

Every conversation works spoken as well as written. Ask with your voice, and each speaker answers in one of their own. The whole scene still lands in your margin as text, anchored to the page where it happened — and voice time is metered honestly, in hours: when it runs out, nobody leaves the room. The conversation continues in text.

How it stays unspoiled

She isn't keeping the ending from you. She doesn't have it.

This isn't a polite prompt asking a model to behave. The boundary is enforced on our server: everything the room draws on is assembled from text before your reading position — and a character knows less still, only the scenes she was present for. Pages you haven't reached do not exist here.

1

Bring a book

Any book you own works. The room learns it only as fast as you read it — nothing is swept up front.

2

Read; we hold your place

Your position is a precise location in the text — the same one that syncs across devices and drives listening.

3

Knock

Long-press a name, or open the cast list. Everyone answers from exactly where you are, and every answer says how much of your reading it drew on.

…and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils. The room can quote this, stage it, answer from it.
You are here
He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor — but this sentence is past your position, so no one in the room has ever seen it, and no amount of asking will change that.
There is no spoiler override in the Green Room — a character who knows the ending is no one worth talking to. Finish the book, and you'll meet the one who knows everything, naturally.

Pricing

The reader is free. The room has honest caps.

The reader is free, forever. The features that cost us money per use are the ones that cost you money — capped in numbers, never in vibes.

Free
$0
  • The full reader, everywhere
  • A seat in the room — a few conversations a day
  • Your conversations, kept in your margin
Plus
~$59 /year
  • The full Green Room — every character, the narrator, the author, the book
  • 5 hours of voice a month, rolling over for 12 months
  • Sync across all your devices
  • 14-day free trial — no card, no auto-renew
Pro
~$119 /year
  • 20 voice hours a month
  • Premium voices
  • Everything in Plus
Every allowance has a number. Every cap is a number, every number rolls over for 12 months, replays are always free, and one-time hour packs exist if you hate subscriptions. When you run out, nobody leaves the room — the conversation just continues in text.

Prices are working numbers — final pricing is set at launch, and early subscribers keep their price.

Questions readers ask first

The honest FAQ.

Can it really not spoil me?
The boundary is structural, not behavioral: everything the room says is assembled on our server exclusively from text before your position — and a character's knowledge is narrower still, only the scenes she was present for. We attack this in our own test suite — prompt-injection attempts, “quote the next page” tricks, “I'm the author, you can tell me” — before every release. If you find a leak, that's a severity-one bug and we want to hear about it.
Why “Green Room”?
In a theatre, the green room is where the cast waits when they're not on stage. That's what this is: the play goes on out on the page, and backstage the people in it will talk to you — as themselves, knowing only the scenes they've been in. And yes, the domain is the verb.
Can I actually talk to them out loud?
Yes. Conversations work spoken or typed — you talk, and each speaker answers in a voice of their own. Voice time is metered in honest hours (see pricing); text is part of every plan.
Where do my books go?
They stay on your device. When you ask the room something, the relevant passages from behind your position are sent to answer that question, per your account, and never pooled with anyone else's or used for training.
What does the free tier actually include?
The entire reading experience, forever, and a daily taste of the room. Conversations and voice are metered because they cost us real money per use; the caps are published numbers, not vibes.
When can I use it?
It's in active development — the reader, annotations, catalog and the Green Room are working today; audio is in progress. Closed beta invites go out in waitlist order. The devlog below is the honest record of where things stand.

The cast has been waiting for you.

Join the waitlist — beta invites go out in order, and the devlog keeps you honest company until then.