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A quiet place to talk about books.

Discuss what you're reading, discover what others thought, or find your next book.
No ads. No algorithms. No engagement metrics. Just books.

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What is Page Commons?

Page Commons is a quiet place for readers. No social feed, no follower counts, no algorithmic recommendations. Just books and the people who read them.

Your reading companion

A private AI companion you can talk to about any book — like a well-read friend who has also read it.

Discusses books, not summaries

Your companion never recites plot points. It asks questions, offers opinions when asked, and follows your lead.

Meets you where you are

Tell it whether you're considering the book, just started, halfway through, or finished — and it adapts accordingly.

Bring your own key

Your conversations are powered by your own AI provider key. Nothing is stored on our servers.

Book rooms (coming soon)

Each book has a room. Readers leave short notes — like margin notes in a second-hand book.

No likes, no rankings

Notes are shown in reading order, not by popularity. There is no engagement metric to optimise for.

Spoiler-aware by default

Notes are gated by reading stage. You only see what's appropriate for where you are in the book.

The philosophy

Page Commons is built for serious readers who feel underserved by Goodreads and generic AI chatbots. It is open source, privacy-first, and funded by readers — not advertisers.

Your companion awaits

Choose your AI provider and enter your API key. Your key stays in your browser and never touches our servers — unless you use the transfer code option, where your key briefly passes through our servers to complete the transfer and is deleted immediately. No record is kept.

Anthropic Claude
Google Gemini
Groq

Get your key at console.anthropic.com


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Choose your companion

Page Commons uses AI to power your reading companion. You can use the free shared pool or bring your own API key.

No key needed. Best for well-known books in English. May not know recent or niche titles in depth — works best when you share what you remember as you go. Shared with other readers; may be slow at busy times.

Stronger knowledge across more titles and languages, always available. Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or Groq. Your key is stored only in this browser and never sent to our servers.

You can change this any time in Preferences.

Welcome to Page Commons

Page Commons is a calm, private reading companion. Talk through the book you're reading with an AI that knows the work, save the passages that stay with you, and keep your shelf — all stored in your own browser, with no ads and no personal data on our servers.

Before you continue, please read and agree to the following:

Age: By continuing you confirm you are 13 years of age or older. Some books contain adult content — you confirm you are 18 or over before accessing such material.
Privacy: Your API key and reading data are stored only in your browser. We do not collect or store personal data on our servers.
Content: Page Commons is a reading companion. Discussions are anchored to books. We are not responsible for AI responses but take reasonable steps to keep them appropriate.
Open source: Page Commons is open source software provided as-is. Use it responsibly.

Your agreement is stored locally in your browser only.

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The companion chats in this language. Defaults to English; per-book overrides are available from the Language button in a chat.