Aloud opens a conversation about what you just read — not a summary, an actual back-and-forth.
“I was reading more than ever and thinking about it less than ever. This fixed that.”
Early beta user
Click the Aloud icon in your Chrome toolbar on any article — news, essays, longform, newsletters.
Aloud scrapes the article automatically. When you open it, it already knows what you just read.
Ask questions, push back, go deeper. Aloud remembers the conversation so you can come back to it.
He distinguishes carefully between being alone and being lonely — and then the piece moves on without ever quite following through on what that distinction demands of us.
It's the kind of intellectual sidestep that happens when a writer knows the answer but finds it too uncomfortable to say clearly.
Most reading apps help you collect articles.
Aloud is for after you've already read one.