Adab Reader

Reads the article you're on and adds AI-generated Islamic scholarly commentary in a corner panel.

Adab Reader is a free educational tool that adds Islamic scholarly commentary to articles you read on the web. WHAT IT DOES 1. When you open a web page, Adab Reader checks whether the page is a substantial article. It qualifies in one of two ways: either the page declares itself an article (an og:type of "article", or Article/NewsArticle/BlogPosting schema data) and has at least 400 words of text, or -- for essays published without that markup -- the page is made up of several long paragraphs of running prose totalling roughly 700 words or more. Pages that meet neither test are ignored, and pages containing a password field are always skipped. 2. If the page is an article, Adab Reader extracts the article's text and sends it to our server at adabreader.com, which passes it to Anthropic's Claude API to generate a commentary. 3. A small indicator appears in the bottom corner of the page within a few seconds, showing that a commentary is being generated. Within about a minute it becomes a panel showing a one-sentence summary of the commentary, and the sentence in the article that the commentary responds to is highlighted in the page. If generation fails, the panel says so and offers a retry. 4. Clicking the panel expands it in place to show the full commentary: the specific point in the article being examined, what Islamic theology, law, or spiritual psychology says about that point, and a concluding remark. It may also list up to three suggested further readings with links. 5. Buttons in the expanded panel let you share the commentary as a link or open it on adabreader.com. 6. On first install, the extension opens a one-page welcome guide at adabreader.com/welcome.html explaining the above. CONTROLS Click the Adab Reader toolbar icon to open the popup, where you can turn the extension off entirely, pause it on the current site, or view the commentary for the page you're on. DATA Article text is sent to adabreader.com only, which passes it to Anthropic's Claude API to generate the commentary. It is not used to train any model. Generated commentaries are cached on your device so revisiting a page doesn't regenerate them. We do not keep a log of the pages you visit: a normal reading sends only the site's domain name, and the full page address is sent and stored only if you explicitly click Share. There are no accounts and no login. To apply a usage limit, each installation generates a random identifier on first run and sends it with each request so the server can count readings used. Each installation gets a set number of free commentaries, shown as a counter in the popup. When they run out, the panel links to a page on adabreader.com where you can load more by answering a few short questions about how you have been using the extension. That form asks for your name and, optionally, an email address; both are stored alongside your installation identifier for up to two years, and the email is used only to follow up on what you wrote. Filling it in is voluntary. There is no purchase flow of any kind. The identifier is not derived from anything about you and has no article text or page addresses stored against it. ABOUT The commentary draws on kalam (theology), fiqh (law and ethics), and tasawwuf (spiritual psychology), citing specific Qur'anic verses, hadith, and classical scholarly works where they genuinely apply. It is generated by an AI language model, not written by a scholar. It is not a fatwa and is not a substitute for a qualified teacher -- it is a starting point for closer reading. Privacy policy: https://adabreader.com/privacy