A mixtape of books
Coffeetable is a ChatGPT plugin that finds the relevant pages across real books
and cuts them into one 5-minute Kindle-style reading.
Not a summary. It cannot be a summary. We all love reading the authors words.
Few use cases
Discover new books. Instead of ChatGPT just giving you names of books, it can actually pull a few pages from various books and put them together. Sample reading got better and more relevant.
Coffeetable A friend is going through a breakup, they’ve been together 1+ years, its been this cycle of breaking up and getting back together. put together some reading for himI’m building this around the actual trap: attachment, intermittent reconciliation, and the decision to end a cycle—not generic breakup comfort.
Selected and listed books for breakup and relationship insightsThe shelf doesn’t have the obvious modern breakup books, so I’m using a stronger mix: attachment, relationship dynamics, communication, and acceptance.
Searched for relationship themes in books and NVCThe reading is taking shape as an argument: distinguish love from dependency, understand why distance can feel intoxicating, then decide without turning a request into coercion.
Read book excerpts and crafted breakup reconciliation readingRe-visit ideas from the books you’ve read. Re-read the snippets of ideas that stuck with you.
Coffeetable Pull the pages from Make Something Wonderful where Jobs talks about putting your work out into the worldThis is a re-read — the book is already on the shelf, so I’m hunting the exact pages, not summarizing them.
Searched Make Something Wonderful for putting work into the worldThe pages cluster around one idea: you express your appreciation to the rest of humanity by making something wonderful and putting it out there.
Read book excerpts and crafted the reading