join the book wisdom farm

A small background helper that uses spare GPU time to read public-domain classics — Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Franklin, Darwin, and thousands more — one chapter-sized piece at a time. It never touches anything else on your machine, and you can pause or stop it anytime. Same idea as SETI@home or Folding@home, just for books.

Kaggle
Best for daily use — keeps running even after you close the tab. Needs one-time phone verification.
Download notebook
Google Colab
Quick to start, but needs you to check in every ~60-80 min or it disconnects.
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AWS SageMaker Studio Lab
4 hrs/day, very stable. New signups close 2026-07-30 — grab an account soon if trying this one.
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Got a Windows PC with a decent GPU instead?
Installs properly like a real app — Start Menu entry, clean uninstaller, pause button, visible in Task Scheduler. No account needed at all.
Download Windows installer
How to actually run it (per platform)
  1. Kaggle: Sign up at kaggle.com → verify your phone (Settings → Phone Verification, required before GPU/internet works) → Create → New Notebook → File → Import Notebook → pick the file you downloaded → in Settings turn on GPU (T4 x2 or P100) + Internet → Run All.
  2. Colab: Sign in at colab.research.google.com → File → Upload notebook → pick the file → Runtime → Change runtime type → T4 GPU → Runtime → Run all.
  3. SageMaker: Request an account at studiolab.sagemaker.aws → once approved, Start runtime → Compute type: GPU → Open project → upload the file → Run All.

Nothing is collected beyond basic hardware specs (CPU/RAM/GPU model) so the server knows what a machine can handle. Pause or stop anytime — nothing bad happens, it just stops reading.