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Welcome to Lorewell

A private semantic library for the books you own.

Your files stay yours. Lorewell helps you read, understand, connect, and remember what is inside—without requiring an account or uploading your collection.

Add one book · fastest Start immediately. Reading position and notes stay in this library.
Open a folder · most durable Read recursively and keep portable metadata beside your collection.
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Choose library location

Each backend has a separate library. Switching saves the current reading position, then loads the target. Nothing is copied or deleted.

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Rename bookmark

Use a short label, or leave it empty to show the reading position.

Save highlight

Library annotations

Portable highlights, notes, and bookmarks in the current storage library.

Save library view

Save the current query, facet, and sort order in this storage library.

Library safety & portability

Validate the current storage library, rebuild its disposable catalog, or move originals and portable records in a documented Lorewell bundle.

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Local storage map Checking…
Background intelligence Off

A compact local encoder quietly processes queued books one at a time. Its first download is about 23 MB; no book text leaves this device.

Local endpoints stay on your machine. Remote BYOK runs only after its destination-specific provider consent and this background opt-in.

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Book details

Edit portable work metadata. Source files are never modified.

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Available formats
Key concepts
Optional. Sends selected indexed passages only after you choose Enrich.

Curate concept

These portable choices overlay derived concepts. Re-indexing can refresh evidence without erasing your label, visibility, or merge decision.

Reading appearance

Typography applies to reflowable books and plain text. PDF pages retain their original layout.

AI providers

Lorewell can run a private model entirely in this browser. NakliOS AI remains the first choice when the app is hosted. An OpenAI-compatible endpoint is an optional fallback.

Built in · Gemma 4 E2B Transformers.js 4.2 · WebGPU · about 3.4 GB, cached locally
No book text is uploaded. Model files are downloaded from Hugging Face.

Endpoint or BYOK

The endpoint and model stay in this browser. The API key is session-only and is never written into a book, library export, or log.

Ollama and LM Studio expose OpenAI-compatible APIs. Start the local server, allow CORS for this Lorewell origin, then test the connection.
AI is optional. Reading and local lexical search do not depend on it.

Ask from your sources

Lorewell retrieves local passages first. The provider receives only those excerpts and must cite them as [S1], [S2], and so on.