Biblioteca: active reading for the age of copilots

I have been thinking for a while about how AI changes our relationship with what we know.

The problem with traditional ebooks is not the screen. It is that they are closed rooms. The text is there, but it is trapped. You cannot easily select it, move it around and, most importantly now, make it transparent to your copilot.

I built Biblioteca not because I wanted another reader, but because of a workflow need:

I need my important readings to become material for discussion, not only consumption.

Text as context

When I read dense material, such as the Diario del Guerrero entries I wrote about in Warrior Path, underlining is no longer enough.

I want to open the AI sidebar and ask:

Considering this chapter about strategic silence, how does it contrast with last week’s entry about massive action?

For that, the text needs to live on the web, clean, accessible through a URL and formatted so both I and the LLM can understand it without friction.

Less app, more tool

The Biblioteca section of my site is deliberately simple. No gamification, no social layer, no recommendation algorithm.

Just three things:

1. Plain Markdown. Text survives when it is simple.

2. Universal access. It works on phone, tablet and desktop without installing anything.

3. Invisible persistence. If I am discussing a concept on the computer and need to leave, I can open the phone and continue in the same place.

Recursive reading

Deep reading has always been a conversation: with the author and with yourself. Now it can become a three-way conversation.

By freeing the text from proprietary containers, I enable recursive reading: read, ask, challenge, return to the text with a new lens.

It is a small experiment in how I want to consume information from now on: less “download a file”, more “visit a thinking space”.