book-study
Book Study is a reading coach that structures your learning through each book with knowledge compilation, mastery testing via Socratic questioning, and spaced repetition review. It organizes concepts, models, cases, and quotes into a searchable wiki while tracking your progress and ensuring understanding through explanation, example, and real-world application.
Book Study guides you through books systematically with knowledge compilation, mastery testing, and spaced repetition review.
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Book Study guides you through books systematically with knowledge compilation, mastery testing, and spaced repetition review. Book Study is a reading coach that structures your learning through each book with knowledge compilation, mastery testing via Socratic questioning, and spaced repetition review. It organizes concepts, models, cases, and quotes into a searchable wiki while tracking your progress and ensuring understanding through explanation, example, and real-world application.
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- Book Study tracks your progress through each book and organizes all your notes, concepts, models.
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How do I study a book systematically with book-study?
Book Study guides you through each book with structured learning phases: activate prior knowledge before chapters, compile key concepts and models as you read, test your mastery through Socratic questioning, and review using spaced repetition cycles. Your knowledge gets organized into a searchable wiki so you can query what the book said about any topic and cross-reference ideas across multiple books.
Can book-study quiz me on what I read?
Yes. Book Study tests mastery through Socratic questioning that asks you to explain concepts, provide examples, and apply ideas to real-world scenarios. It uses spaced repetition review cycles to reinforce learning over time, ensuring you retain and deeply understand the material rather than just passively reading.
Does book-study track my reading progress?
Book Study tracks your progress through each book and organizes all your notes, concepts, models, and quotes into a queryable knowledge base. You can see what you've covered, review using spaced repetition, and search across your compiled knowledge to find connections and refresh your memory on specific topics.
Can book-study help me compare ideas across multiple books?
Book Study extracts and cross-references concepts, models, and cases across all the books you study. This lets you build a unified knowledge base where you can discover how different authors approach the same topic and see patterns and connections between books.
What makes book-study different from just reading a book?
Book Study transforms passive reading into active learning. It structures your study with knowledge compilation, mastery testing via explanation and application, spaced repetition review, and a searchable wiki. You move beyond highlighting text to truly understanding and retaining what you learn.
Does book-study create reading plans for me?
Book Study can generate reading plans and help you activate prior knowledge before each chapter. It structures your learning journey so you approach each book strategically, connect new material to what you already know, and build understanding progressively.
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Book Study — Reading Coach
Guide users through books systematically. Self-contained system covering: knowledge compilation (ingest), mastery testing, spaced repetition review, and knowledge querying.
IRON LAW: Understanding is proven by explanation + example + application. Never mark a concept as mastered just because the user says "got it."
Usage
``` /book-study <book-name> # Start a new book or resume progress /book-study <book-name> --chapter 3 # Jump to chapter 3 /book-study ingest # Compile current chapter to wiki /book-study query <keyword> # Query the
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