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Chatting with books sounds like science fiction, but it's becoming real. And like most new technologies, it's evolving in ways people didn't expect.

When we started iChatbook, the idea was simple: let people chat with their books. Back then, there weren't many options for this. Now there are more, but they've mostly gone in a different direction.

Most book-chatting apps focus on PDFs. They'll let you chat with a PDF, show you relevant parts of it, or compare different PDFs. That's fine, but it's not what we're trying to do.

We're building a home for your books. A place where you can organize collections on bookshelves, just like in the real world. But unlike real bookshelves, ours let you talk to the books. You can have conversations with them, make them talk to each other, and share these chats with friends.

It's like if your bookshelf came to life.

But we're not stopping there. We're adding voice features, working with schools to read children's books aloud. It's no longer just about chatting with text on a screen.

So if all you want is to chat with a single PDF, there are probably better options out there. But if you want a living library — a place where your books can talk to you and each other, where you can organize and share these conversations, where children's books can read themselves aloud — then iChatbook is what you're looking for.

This might sound like a niche idea. But I think it's the beginning of something big. Today, we chat with books. Tomorrow? Who knows. Maybe we'll be having conversations with entire libraries, or with the collective knowledge of humanity.

The most exciting startups often seem weird at first. They're solving problems most people don't even realize exist yet. I remember when Dropbox launched, a lot of people said "Why would I need that? I can just email files to myself." Now it seems obvious.

I think we're at a similar point with book-chatting. Most people don't realize they want their books to talk back. But once they try it, they might wonder how they ever lived without it.

Of course, this is all speculation. We don't know if iChatbook will be the next big thing or just an interesting experiment. But that's the nature of startups. You see a door that's sticking — in this case, the limited, PDF-focused nature of book-chatting apps — and you try to fix it. Sometimes you end up building something much bigger than you initially imagined.

So if you're interested in where books are going, keep an eye on iChatbook. It might just be the future of reading. Or it might not. But either way, it's going to be an interesting journey.