📚 Founder of Lex | 🏛️ Empire-Builders | ⚡ Book/tool/media maximalist

Building the new Library of Alexandria: books, audiobooks, citations, summaries, speed reading, history media, and every weird tool that makes reading feel alive again.

• 📚 Lex - read, upload, track, and discuss books; 6M+ free books, 30,000+ audiobooks, iOS, Android, web, and desktop.
• ⚡ BlitzReads - speed reading for classics and EPUBs; sentence mode, word mode, 300-750 WPM.
• 🧾 Lexipedia - Wikipedia, but book citations open the cited page in context through Google Books + Lex.
• 🎙️ LexVox - long-form voice generation and audiobook tooling for books, essays, and creators.
• 🏛️ Empire-Builders - history documentaries, podcasts, and book clubs about the rise and fall of imperial civilizations.
• 🧠 lexicon - early experiments in AI-readable book summaries and knowledge compression.

• 📖 Lex Reader - the main reading platform: public-domain library, uploads, shelves, progress tracking, highlights, notes, social discovery, and author pages.
• 🎧 Audiobooks - 30k+ LibriVox titles, synced playback, chapter mapping, full-screen player, mini-player, CarPlay-style audio metadata, and native mobile audio work.
• 🤖 Lex AI - reading companion, inline edits, summaries, book intelligence, recommendations, and context-aware chat over a user's library.
• 🌍 Translations - AI-assisted translations for classic works, public-domain editions, and Lex-original releases.
• 📄 PDF to EPUB - scanned books and PDFs converted into reflowable reading experiences.
• 🗺️ Literary Map - bookstores, libraries, literary events, and discovery around real-world reading culture.
• 🧑‍💻 Creator Tools - publisher onboarding, 90% author royalties, uploads, premium editions, and book production workflows.

• ⚡ BlitzReads - "read at the speed of thought"; rapid serial visual presentation plus sentence-context speed reading.
• 🏆 BookTierList - ranking books visually, because taste is more fun when it starts arguments.
• 🇺🇸 POTUSTierList - presidents, tiers, history nerdery, and exactly the kind of discourse the internet deserves.
• 📚 Comprehensive Summaries - Blinkist-style Lex editions for major works, generated from actual book text and published as readable books.
• 🔎 X-Ray / Book Intelligence - characters, chapters, themes, and reading context without fake quote theater.

• 🧾 Lexipedia - a live Wikipedia mirror that makes book citations useful instead of dead footnotes.
• 🔖 Citation Resolver - detects book refs, parses ISBN/title/author/page, and opens the source in Google Books or Lex.
• 🧠 Book Graph - editions, translations, audiobooks, PDFs, IA scans, Gutenberg records, Open Library, Google Books, Apple Books, Hardcover, and more.
• 🪪 Author/Bio Pipelines - catalog enrichment, author pages, summaries, covers, and metadata cleanup at scale.

• 🎙️ LexVox - voice generation for long-form content, designed around books instead of 15-second clips.
• 🗣️ Audiobook Generation - Qwen3-TTS experiments, voice design, voice cloning, chapter extraction, batch generation, and S3 delivery.
• 🎼 Ambient Reading Audio - music manifests, background tracks, reading modes, and audio engine work.
• 🎬 Empire-Builders - produced, edited, and presented history content; Roman roads, empires, biographies, presidents, and long-form educational videos.

• 🏛️ Empire-Builders Podcast - 24+ episodes on imperial civilizations, late Rome, Carolingians, Holy Roman Empire, and the deep roots of state formation.
• 📜 Empire-Builders Book Club - biographies, classics, and primary sources for people who think bookstores should come with battle maps.
• ✍️ Little Corporal's Dispatch - history, econ, geopolitics, tech, books, movies, and occasional Napoleonposting.
• 🏗️ Library of Alexandria Project - the larger mission: make the world's serious books easier to find, read, cite, hear, summarize, translate, and share.

• 📚 A real alternative to Amazon for books - better economics for authors, better UX for readers, no lock-in.
• 🌐 A universal reading layer - EPUBs, PDFs, scans, audiobooks, citations, translations, summaries, and social context in one place.
• 🧠 AI that helps people read more deeply - not fake homework summaries, but tools for comprehension, memory, and discovery.
• 🏛️ History media with receipts - videos, podcasts, and essays connected back to sources and books.
• 🛠️ Many small tools - because a good side project is just a future feature trying to escape.

• ⚛️ Frontend - Next.js, React, Tailwind, CSS modules, mobile-first web UI.
• 🧱 Backend - Supabase, Postgres, Vercel, Typesense, S3/CloudFront, Stripe.
• 📱 Native - Capacitor for iOS/Android, Tauri for desktop, native plugins when the webview taps out.
• 🤖 AI - OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, AI SDK, structured generation, metadata extraction, voice generation.
• 🧹 Pipelines - Node, Python, workers, cron, batch imports, EPUB/PDF processing, catalog enrichment.

• 🧪 lexicon - early public repo and experiments around structured summaries.
• 🧢 POTUSTierList - presidents ranked with the seriousness this unserious format demands.
• 📕 BookTierList - book taste as a shareable artifact.
• ⚡ BlitzReads - speed reading, shipped standalone.
• 🏛️ Empire-Builders - media, podcasting, historical research, editing, scripting, production.
• 🧬 Web3 experiments - Farcaster/onchain identity dabbling before returning to books and civilization.

• Shipping Lex every day.
• Turning public-domain books into something normal people actually want to use.
• Building tools for readers, authors, publishers, autodidacts, and history freaks.
• Making AI do useful grunt work: citations, metadata, summaries, translations, narration, cleanup.
• Trying to make "read more books" feel less like homework and more like the internet got good again.

• 📚 Lex: lex-books.com
• ⚡ BlitzReads: blitzreads.com
• 🏛️ Empire-Builders: linktr.ee/empirebuilderspod
• ✍️ Substack: Little Corporal's Dispatch
• 💌 Email: dm@lex-books.com
• 🐙 GitHub: @dmainayar

• Built Lex into a cross-platform reader with millions of books, tens of thousands of audiobooks, uploads, shelves, AI, native apps, and publisher tooling.
• Created BlitzReads, a free speed-reading site for classics and EPUB uploads.
• Created Lexipedia, a citation-first Wikipedia reading experiment.
• Produced and hosted Empire-Builders, history content about empires, biographies, and the long arc of civilization.
• Worked on The Armchair Historian as editor, writer, researcher, and proofreader.

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

— Winston Churchill, Harvard University, 1943

Random facts:

• Thinks every book app is secretly a civilization simulator.
• Has too many side projects and considers this a feature.
• Believes citations should take you to the page, not a footnote graveyard.
• Wants authors to keep more money.
• Will probably make a tier list about it.