@edwardxlaime: Due to the recent surge in demand for reading papers, plus I've had enough of the garbage typesetting and garbage trans…
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作者因不满现有论文排版与翻译工具的糟糕体验，开发了名为 EasyRead 的论文阅读工具，支持文献管理、自定义模型、原文对照、文献搜索、PDF 导入以及在阅读页面直接与模型对话。
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Due to the recent surge in demand for reading papers, plus I’ve had enough of the garbage typesetting and garbage translations from translation software like immersive translation and DeepL, and had enough of the garbage literature management from old software like Zotero, so I stole some time amid the busyness to whip up a toy.
EasyRead is designed to let you read papers more comfortably, without having to read in a really awkward way inside apps like Claude and GPT (us old-school folks prefer reading the full text in its raw form instead of letting large models summarize it directly). It supports literature management, custom models, original text comparison, literature search and PDF import (I only tested search on arXiv, forgive me—someone use it and tell me), and you can chat directly on the reading page (doesn’t this crush alphaxiv?). The only downside is it burns through your own quota, but it’s not much anyway.
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