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Storgy

01The grounded desk

Cited answers,
not confident guesses.

Ask anything about a classic novel or play, on the book's own study guide. The answer is built only from Storgy's chapter summaries, key quotes and — for Shakespeare — the text of the scene you are reading, with the chapter or the line cited. The footnotes are the feature.

Find a set text

  • 277+ works
  • Cites the chapter
  • Signed in · 1 credit a message

02 — The protocol

We removed the imagination.

Language models are built to guess — plausible fiction is their default. When studying a set text, guessing is fatal.

The illusion of knowledge

Ask a general chatbot about a 500-page novel and it strings together probabilities — paragraphs that sound right, with invented quotes and blended chapters. It reads like study; it isn't.

The hazard

A hallucinated plot point cited in an essay is worse than no answer at all.

The archive of evidence

The ask block on a study guide is a closed loop: it reads only Storgy's chapter-by-chapter summaries and key quotes for the book you're asking about — and, on a scene page, that scene's text — then answers with the citations attached.

The guarantee

If the guide doesn't hold the material, it says so and names the chapter or scene that would — it never invents an answer to fill the silence.

03Pre-answered desks

Desks with answers waiting.

458 cited answers already typeset across 47 works — read them without an account, then ask your own on the guide.

Complete index

Every one of the 277 catalogue works has a study guide — open one and ask your question at the foot of it.

How an answer is built

1 · Read the questionPlot, character, theme, or language — in plain English.
2 · Read the study guideOnly this work's chapter summaries and key quotes are on the desk.
3 · Pin the citationsEach claim carries the chapter reference it came from.

05Built for the classroom

Built so a teacher can check every answer.

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    Answers you can check

    It answers the question asked, in plain language, and gives students cited material to reason from. It's instructed never to write the essay, the paragraph, or anything meant to be handed in — and never to grade a thing it's shown.

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    Receipts on every claim

    Citations point into the chapter-by-chapter study guide, so any claim can be followed back to the summary and key quotes it came from.

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    It can say “I don't know”

    Ask something the guide doesn't cover and it says so — and names the chapter or scene that would. The refusal is part of the design.

06Questions

Where do I ask a question about a book?

On the book's study guide, in the “Ask about this work” block at the foot of the page — and on any of its chapter pages and, for Shakespeare, any scene of the parallel text. The block on a chapter page has that chapter's summary, analysis, quotes and vocabulary in front of it; the one on a scene page has the scene itself, original beside modern English.

How is this different from asking a chatbot?

The answer is built from Storgy's own chapter summaries, key quotes and — on a scene page — the text of the scene, and nothing else. It cites the chapter or the act, scene and line it is working from, so you can check it. When the guide doesn't cover what you asked, it says so and names the chapter or scene that would, instead of inventing one.

What kinds of questions work well?

Plot questions work well: 'What happens in Chapter 4?' So do questions about character ('How does Atticus change?'), theme ('How is power presented?') and language ('What does the green light symbolise?'). On a scene page you can also ask what a speech means in plain terms, or what a character is actually deciding.

Will it write my essay?

No. It is instructed never to write an essay, a paragraph, a thesis statement or an answer to be handed in as your own, and never to grade anything. It will tell you how to approach the question, which evidence to look at, and what to answer first.

What does it cost?

You need to be signed in, and each message costs one credit. Everything else on a study guide — the chapter summaries, characters and themes, the quotes and quizzes, the vocabulary and modern-English text — stays free and needs no account.

Which works are supported?

Any published work in the Storgy catalog whose study guide has been written. If the guide for a work doesn't exist yet, the ask block isn't there either.

Storgy for teachers

It answers questions about the book. It will not write the essay for the student.

Pair the guides with discussion questions, quizzes, lesson plans and rubric scaffolds across your whole reading list.

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