--- title: "Read with Eddy, with its sources | DuckyHelper" url: "https://duckyhelper.com/features/reader/" description: "Read Wikipedia, classic books and science pages with Eddy in a clean reader. Eddy quotes only paragraphs it read, with numbered sources, and reads aloud." updated: "2026-10-09" --- Eddy, in the Mac app # Read with Eddy, with its sources Open Research in Eddy and read Wikipedia, public-domain books from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, US-government science pages or your own files in a clean reader. Select any words to ask about them. Or ask Eddy to look something up: it searches, reads the sources, and writes a short brief that quotes only paragraphs it actually read, with numbered citations you can check. [Download for Mac](https://duckyhelper.com/download/)[See every feature](https://duckyhelper.com/features/) Find it ## An article, a book, your notes. Press Research, or Cmd + E, and search. Filters keep it to what you want: All, Wikipedia, Books and stories, NASA and science, or Your files. Pick one and it opens in a clean reader, without ads or sidebars, ready to read with Eddy. [Guide: Read and research with Eddy](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/eddy/research/) Simple English first for younger readers For a younger learner, Wikipedia opens in Simple English first. Other websites A site the reader does not open says so. Eddy can open it in a web page tab with you instead. Ask about any words ## Select it. Ask about it. Select any words on the page and four buttons appear: Ask Eddy, Show me, Explain and Save. Ask what a sentence means, see it as a picture, or keep it as a highlight. Select anywhere lets you drag a box over a table or a figure and ask about that. A brief you can check ## Research you can check. Ask Eddy to look it up, or pick Look it up in How Eddy answers. Eddy shows its steps as it searches and reads, then writes a short brief. Every claim has a number, and every number opens the paragraph it came from. If Eddy did not read it, it does not quote it. ### Wikipedia Articles in a clean reader, with Simple English for younger readers. ### Books and stories Public-domain books from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks. ### NASA and science US-government science pages, like NASA's. ### Your files Your own files, in the same clean reader. Listen ## Have Eddy read it to you. Press Listen in the reader and Eddy reads the article or story aloud, lighting up each word as you hear it. Tap a word to pause and ask about it. [Read aloud Words light up as they are read, so you can follow along.](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/eddy/read-aloud/) ### Tap a word Reading pauses and Eddy tells you about that word. ### Save what matters Select words and press Save to keep them as a highlight. ## Find it. Read it. Ask about it. How reading with Eddy goes. 1. 1. Open Research Cmd + E, or ask Eddy to look it up. 2. 2. Pick a source Wikipedia, a book, a science page or your files. 3. 3. Read and select Ask Eddy, Show me, Explain or Save on any words. 4. 4. Check the brief Every number opens the paragraph it came from. ## Say it back in your own words. Reading with someone who asks you what a paragraph means, and lets you ask back, is how reading turns into understanding. Bring your own homework too: Eddy opens your PDF or Word file the same way. The learning science behind it: [Explain it back in your own words](https://duckyhelper.com/research/principles/explain-it-back/). [Open your homework with Eddy](https://duckyhelper.com/features/homework-files/) ## How to use it [Guide: Read and research with Eddy](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/eddy/research/)[Guide: Have Eddy read it to you](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/eddy/read-aloud/) ## Frequently asked questions ### Is there an AI that reads along with me? Yes. In Eddy's reader, press Listen and Eddy reads the article or story aloud while each word lights up. Tap any word to pause and ask about it. Select a sentence to ask what it means, see it as a picture, or save it. ### Where do Eddy's sources come from? From what Eddy actually opened and read: Wikipedia, public-domain books from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, US-government science pages and your own files. Its brief quotes only paragraphs it read, and each numbered citation opens that paragraph, so you can check it. ### Can Eddy help me understand my assigned reading? Yes. If the reading is on Wikipedia or a public-domain book, open it in Research. If it is a PDF, Word file or slides from your class, open it with Open a file and Eddy reads it with you. Select any part to ask about it. ### Does it make up quotes? Eddy's research brief quotes only paragraphs it actually read, and every claim carries a number that opens its source. If something is not in what it read, it does not cite it. You can always open the source and check. ### Does the reader work on a Chromebook? Not right now: DuckyHelper is a Mac app (macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon). There is no Chromebook or web version. On a Mac, the reader is in the Eddy tab of the DuckyHelper dashboard, and Ducky can read along on your own screen. ## More features ### Eddy writes and draws step by step in time with its voice, then hands you a your-turn Eddy works it out on a blackboard, writing and drawing step by step in time with its voice, then gives you a your-turn and checks your answer. ### A picture made for your question, labelled as Eddy explains; tap any part to ask about it Ask Eddy to show you and a picture made for your question comes into focus, labelled as Eddy explains. Tap any part to ask about it, or change it. ### Open a PDF, Word file, slides or a photo of your homework; Eddy hints beside the question and checks your answer Open your worksheet, slides or a photo of your homework in Eddy. You both see the same page; Eddy writes a hint beside the question and checks your answer. ### Replay any Eddy lesson exactly as it happened, at any speed, then pick it up again Replay any Eddy lesson from History exactly as it happened, at 1x, 1.5x or 2x, then ask Eddy about it and pick up from there. Your own voice is never kept. ### Eddy opens a page in a tab and points, highlights, scrolls and clicks where you can watch Ask Eddy to open a site and it opens in a tab where Eddy points, highlights, scrolls and clicks with its own cursor while you watch. School sites work too. ### Say quiz me: tap, type math or answer true or false, and every miss comes with why Say quiz me and DuckyHelper writes a quick quiz on what you are learning: tap, type math or answer true or false, and every miss comes with why. ## Keep reading ### Eddy: the voice tutor in the DuckyHelper Mac app's Eddy tab Eddy is the voice tutor in the DuckyHelper Mac app: talk out loud and it teaches on a blackboard, with labelled pictures, quizzes and your own homework file. ### Writing: feedback on your own draft, never a ghostwriter An AI writing tutor that reads your own draft with you, asks what you mean and points to what is unclear, and leaves the writing to you. On a Mac. ## Read something with Eddy Open the Eddy tab in the Mac app, press Research and pick a page. [Download for Mac](https://duckyhelper.com/download/) [See what it does](https://duckyhelper.com/features/) The Mac app needs Apple silicon and macOS 14 Sonoma or later. There is no Chromebook, Windows or web version right now.