Glosa restores context, patience, provenance, agency, and memory to digital reading — then knows when to disappear. Read a public-domain classic, or bring your own text. Ask for context in the margin, listen without losing your place, study through active recall, or leave every layer silent.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, I thought I would sail about a little. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.
The source remains sovereign — untouched and recoverable.
Silent through Synthesis. Assistance never turns itself up.
Every claim shows its source and its uncertainty.
A finite work, with no feed waiting behind the book.
Most AI readers put a chat window between you and the page. Glosa keeps the original in view and brings help into the margin only when you ask. Three planes, never silently merged.
The author's authoritative text — exact edition, stable location, original record.
Your notes, questions, highlights, recollections, purpose, and interpretation.
Generated context, inquiry, analysis, synthesis — typed, sourced, and withdrawable.
Choose the maximum assistance permitted. Glosa still has to earn every appearance — permission to help is not permission to interrupt.
The dial never moves itself — and a permitted feature may still choose to withdraw. Silence is a complete product state.
Glosa configures the session, not the person. Preferences shape presentation; only evidence-supported practices shape the Study tools.
Protect the trance. Context stays spoiler-aware; learning prompts stay off unless invited.
Adler's pre-read — skim, map, and decide what a work asks of you, fast.
Analytical reading with recall, confidence, self-explanation, and citation.
Audio when you need it — self-paced, never at the cost of your place.
Syntopical reading — many works around a question you define.
Reader-controlled quiet. Some passages are meant to be left alone.
Bring your own DRM-free book or document. Glosa preserves the source, builds stable reading locations, discloses processing, and keeps conversion uncertainty visible. Your file, your device.
DRM-free 2/3 — semantic structure, footnotes, stable locators.
Page-faithful view, text layer, reading-order quality, source coordinates.
Explicit local/cloud path, image anchors, confidence, correction layer.
Headings, lists, tables, notes, images — sanitized, source-linked.
Encoding-safe, structured, stable block locations, raw source kept.
Reader-requested capture — sanitized, timestamped, linked to the live original.
Camera or import, crop/rotate, opt-in OCR, side-by-side with the original.
RTF, ODT, DOC, Pages, FB2 and more — isolated rescue conversion, later.
Glosa doesn't say “brain-based” and hope you stop asking. Every cognitive claim carries a state, a source, a limitation, and a revision date.
Recalling for yourself beats re-reading for long-term memory — with task and interval limits. No universal guarantee.
A small paper advantage appears in some settings, especially expository reading and self-calibration.
Modality effects depend on material, task, reader, navigation, and measurement. Listening is fine for comprehension; self-paced reading tends to keep more.
Optional and silence-first. No comprehension, nervous-system, or focus-frequency claim.
Preferences configure the interface; Glosa does not diagnose a visual/auditory/kinesthetic “type.” The idea failed the science.
Inspectional Mode accelerates selection and orientation — not impossible eye-speed promises.
AI offers attributed interpretations and alternatives. The reader keeps authorship.
Reverent Mode stays reader-controlled. Glosa does not infer spiritual states.
Glosa does not use your books, documents, notes, highlights, questions, voice, or reading history to train shared models — unless you choose a specific contribution, review exactly what will be sent, and consent for that exact purpose.
If you ever choose to contribute — to improve our own engine, never a third party — you see the exact payload first, and you consent for that one purpose. No ads. No behavioral data sale. No training consent hidden inside general terms.
Glosa scales by deepening the same grammar. The public reader never has to become a research cockpit.
Approved public-domain editions, a serene Page, margin context, basic listening, a local guest Vault.
EPUB, PDF, documents, web, scans, OCR, organization, export, optional encrypted sync.
Inspectional & analytical reading, recall, confidence, self-explanation, spacing, citations.
Syntopical comparison, terminology, claims, evidence, timelines, contradictions, dossiers.
Corpus lineage, authority tiers, an interdisciplinary concept graph, experience testimony, research agents.
Voice, oral reflection, shared attention, and accessibility — without replacing the page or impersonating lived experience.
The Reader Bill of Rights and our Published Refusals make the philosophy something you can hold us to.