Hi all new here. I read a lot, and built a Chrome extension called BookGlints to solve my own problem. I'd genuinely value this community's take on it, since you all think harder about reading tools than most.
The problem: I kept abandoning books a hundred pages in over things I'd have avoided if I'd known. A flawless "good at everything" protagonist, a forced romance subplot, a series that never gets finished. It's all in the reviews, but nobody reads 200 reviews before starting a book.
BookGlints lets you define your own flags in plain language ("protagonist too perfect," "series never finished," anything), then scans a book's Goodreads or StoryGraph reviews and shows you the ones that actually match, quoting the real review text. It matches on meaning rather than keywords, so "Mary Sue" and "main character is good at everything" register as the same concern.
The things I suspect this crowd will care about most:
It only reads a book's review page when you click Scan. No background tracking, no browsing history, no analytics on what you read.
Every result is the actual reviewer's words, not an AI-generated summary you're never trusting a paraphrase.
Works across reviews in multiple languages.
Chrome only for now. Free to try, paid tier for heavier use.
Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/de...amdfkgifnlpckd
What I'd love from you specifically: does this fit how you decide what to read, and where does the approach fall short? I know this community has strong opinions on reading tools and I'd rather hear the hard feedback now.
The problem: I kept abandoning books a hundred pages in over things I'd have avoided if I'd known. A flawless "good at everything" protagonist, a forced romance subplot, a series that never gets finished. It's all in the reviews, but nobody reads 200 reviews before starting a book.
BookGlints lets you define your own flags in plain language ("protagonist too perfect," "series never finished," anything), then scans a book's Goodreads or StoryGraph reviews and shows you the ones that actually match, quoting the real review text. It matches on meaning rather than keywords, so "Mary Sue" and "main character is good at everything" register as the same concern.
The things I suspect this crowd will care about most:
It only reads a book's review page when you click Scan. No background tracking, no browsing history, no analytics on what you read.
Every result is the actual reviewer's words, not an AI-generated summary you're never trusting a paraphrase.
Works across reviews in multiple languages.
Chrome only for now. Free to try, paid tier for heavier use.
Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/de...amdfkgifnlpckd
What I'd love from you specifically: does this fit how you decide what to read, and where does the approach fall short? I know this community has strong opinions on reading tools and I'd rather hear the hard feedback now.
