About

Books are a relationship between authors, artists, editors, readers, and writers of all kinds. Let's make technology that reinforces that relationship!

The rereading Project's primary focus is to develop an ecosystem of tools for individuals and media providers to manage book-like libraries.

The rereading Project does not include a prescription against AI as a guiding principle, but rather views an opposition to AI as a consequence of these principles — AI fundamentally changes the relationship between reader and author, and does so in a way that encloses art, displaces labor, and betrays readers’ interests.

Project Principles

• A book is a work of art, and art is labor.
• A book is a relationship between an author or authors and their readers.
• Art and labor should not be enclosed by corporate interests, but should be a rich and flourishing part of human culture.
• Technology should enable but never undermine or circumvent that relationship.
• Readers should always be able to maintain their own personal libraries, independent of which publisher provided a given book, in what format, and for what device.
• Locking books to specific devices promotes e-waste and inhibits the accessibility of books.
• Technology should not enable corporations or governments to retroactively censor or remove books from individual readers’ libraries.
• Open source is an inherently political movement. Enabling readers to read books is similarly an inherently political action.
• Books should not disappear when publishers disappear, nor when e-book sellers disappear.