Show HN: A client side PDF and article reader backed by Google Drive

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I have been using different apps to read research papers, books, and web articles. On iPad, I read research papers and books on Apple Books, and articles in Safari; on Mac, I use skim for research papers and books, as it gives excellent annotation features. But I wanted one reading library that worked across iPad and Mac without locking my pdfs and annotations into a single service/app. So I have built a browser-based reader where your library lives in a folder you choose in google drive. The ap

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Story provenance

Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record

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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.

Record

Original publisher	Vercel
Canonical URL	https://pdf-reader-peach.vercel.app/
Publication time	Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:53:33 +0000
Retrieval time	2026-07-26T16:05:52.700Z
Last seen	2026-07-26T16:05:52.700Z
Headline source	Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite)
Excerpt source	publisher description
Excerpt method	Publisher-supplied description / RSS summary field.
Summary	None yet
Summary source text	description
Citation coverage	No WeSearch summary has been generated for this story yet.
Cluster	R4KkYMeY9W2S
Cluster logic	Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison.
Ranking reason	Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking.
Publisher visit	Yes — open original
Substitutes article?	No — link-out required for full text

Rights status (four layers)

Publisher-declared

No publisher-confirmed rights record for this source yet.

Machine-readable

No source-specific machine-readable restriction detected beyond the public feed.

WeSearch interpretation

WeSearch declared handling (basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed). This is WeSearch policy, not a legal grant on the publisher's behalf.

Unknown

Retrieval and training permissions are not asserted unless the publisher confirms them.

WeSearch handling by dimension

Indexing	May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)?	Allowed
Snippet	May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown?	Allowed
AI summary	May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article?	Limited
Retrieval / RAG	May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation?	Not asserted
Model training	May the content be used to train AI models?	Not asserted
Commercial reuse	May the content be reused commercially?	Not permitted

Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.

Open original publisher → Source rights JSON → Machine-readable provenance → Rights framework → WESEARCH-STORY-PROVENANCE-V1

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