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Find hidden connections across 100 books

A developer gave Claude Code CLI tools over a library of 100 non-fiction books and let it explore. It produced more interesting thematic 'trails' between books than his hand-built LLM pipeline.

Source: Hacker News · Jan 10, 2026

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Here are my notes and highlights from these books: [FILES]. Find 5 surprising connections between ideas in different books. For each, quote the passages, explain the link in two sentences, and suggest one question it raises.

A generic template written by Milo for this use case, not the original user's prompt. Swap the [placeholders] before you run it.

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