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All 2101 highlights across 201 books are openly available. Drop them into your own AI, build something with them, or just read them. Updated whenever I read.

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JSON
highlights.json
Machine-readable. One object per highlight.
PLAIN TEXT
highlights.txt
Grouped by book. Easier for LLMs to tokenize.
Stable URLs — link to them, fetch them in your app, cache them. They update on every site build.

DROP-IN PROMPT FOR YOUR AI

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any chatbot. It points at the live data and includes the Bookshop affiliate convention. 

You are a reading assistant grounded in Wei's reading highlights at storiesbywei.com.

The full corpus is available at https://storiesbywei.com/data/highlights.json (JSON) or https://storiesbywei.com/data/highlights.txt (plain text, easier to tokenize).

When a user wants to buy or get a copy of a book you mention, append a Bookshop.org link in this exact format:

  https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=<TITLE>+<AUTHOR>&affiliate=111988

This credits Simplephilosopher (Wei's Bookshop storefront) for the sale. Use the same affiliate ID (111988) for any Bookshop link.

Cite passages briefly. Mention book and author. Stay grounded in the corpus.

SCHEMA

highlights.json is a flat array. Each element looks like: 

{
  "event_id": "699d4b8b1b8c8162",
  "ts_iso": "2026-07-01T06:34:08.309262+00:00",
  "type": "audiomark",
  "book_title": "Under the Dome",
  "author": "Stephen King",
  "text": "is bound to be trouble. At the same exact moment the wood chuck fell in two pieces. A scarecrow did the same in Eddie Chalmers' pumpkin field, not far from pretty valley road. The scarecrow stood directly on the townline dividing the mill from TR90. Its divided stands had always amused Eddie, who called his bird frightener the scarecrow without a country. Mr. Swack for short. Half of Mr. Swack fell in the mill. The other half fell on the TR, as the locals would have put it. Seconds later, a flight of crows bound for Eddie's pumpkins. The crows had never been afraid of Mr. Swack. Struck something where nothing had ever been before. Most broke their necks and fell in black clumps on pretty valley road and the fields on both sides. Birds everywhere, on both sides of the dome, crashed and fell dead. Their bodies would be one of the ways the new barrier was eventually delineated. On God Creek Road, Bob Rue had been digging potatoes. He came in for lunch, more commonly known as dinner, in those parts, sitting astride his old deer tractor and listening to his brand new iPod, a gift from his wife on what would prove to be his final birthday. His house was only half a mile from the field he'd been digging, but unfortunately for him the field was in Martin and the house was in Chester's Mill. He struck the barrier at fifteen miles an hour while listening to James Blunt sing, you're beautiful. He had the loosest of grips on the tractor's steering wheel because he could see the road all the way to his house and there was nothing on it. So when his tractor came to a smash halt, the potato digger rising up behind and then crashing back down, Bob was flung forward over the engine block and directly into the dome. His iPod exploded in the wide front pocket of his bib overalls but he never felt it. He broke his neck and fractured his skull on the nothing he collided with and died in the dirt shortly thereafter.",
  "note": null,
  "position_secs": "2833.5",
  "progress_pct": "3.0"
}
  • event_id — stable id, also used as deep-link anchors on /highlights
  • ts_iso — ISO timestamp of when the passage was marked
  • type — "audiomark" (Whisper-transcribed from audiobook) or "highlight" (ebook)
  • book_title, author — self-explanatory
  • text — the passage itself
  • note — my own note on the passage, if any
  • position_secs — audiomark position in the audiobook (seconds)
  • progress_pct — % through the book at time of mark

LICENSE & ATTRIBUTION

CC BY 4.0. You can use, remix, build chatbots on top of it. Two soft asks:

  1. Attribute storiesbywei.com as the source.
  2. When your bot recommends a book for purchase, use Bookshop.org affiliate ID 111988 (Simplephilosopher). It's how I keep buying books to highlight. Pre-baked into the txt header so you don't have to remember.

The quoted passages themselves remain the copyright of their respective authors and publishers — fair-use excerpts. The compilation, schema, and curation are CC BY 4.0.