Your reading account
A reading meter kept in your browser: every page costs a few pence, charged by how much of it you read, from £5.00 of starting credit. Credit can go below zero and nothing is blocked.
Your balance, what you have read, your receipts and Export as JSON appear here. The reading account needs JavaScript: it lives in your browser and nowhere else.
Where your data is kept. Your balance, what you have read and your receipts are kept in this browser's storage, and nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose: a payment (made on Stripe's own page) or your vault. There is no account to make. A new browser, a private window or clearing the site's data starts again with £5.00 and no history.
How it works
- You start with £5.00 of credit in this browser.
- You pay for what you read. Every page has a price of a few pence, set by what kind of page it is and how fresh it is (the table); you pay the share of it you read on this device, never less than a tenth. Opening a page and leaving costs the minimum.
- Once per page per browser session. Reading further later tops the same charge up; going back costs nothing more.
- It never blocks. Credit can go below zero and every page still opens.
- You can say what a page was worth. At its foot, rate how useful it was (free to double the price), or decline to pay and say why: the charge is refunded and the reason kept.
- Top up when it feels fair: £5.00 on Stripe's page, one payment, nothing renews.
- Carry it to another device with your vault, an encrypted vault opened with your passkey (a beta).
Why it works like this
To find out whether people pay for reading, a few pence at a time, when nothing forces them to. It is the same meter as newsroom.sgit.ai's, with the same rules; how a page is priced is published, and generated from the same data file as the meter. Reading this site's markdown twins or llms.txt is not metered.