--- --- Oct 30, 2024 # An Expert Book Club by [Chris Stokel-Walker](https://time.com/author/chris-stokel-walker/) ## Chris Stokel-Walker  Want to discuss _A Room with a View_ with Lena Dunham? Or hear Roxane Gay talking through Edith Wharton’s _Age of Innocence_? Now you can, thanks to publishing outfit [Rebind](https://www.rebind.ai/). The company was founded by John Dubuque, who hired [a professor](https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-mark-wrathall) at Corpus Christi College, at the University of Oxford, to teach him the philosophical tome _Being and Time_. With Rebind, AI provides expert conversational commentary about a book in response to user questions. So far, 10 books are available to the 1,000 users in the open beta, with two more books added each month, once the 10,000-strong waitlist opens. “The goal is to make this encounter with deeply meaningful texts possible for many more people,” says Dubuque. Learn More at [Rebind](https://www.rebind.ai/?utm%5Fsource=TIME&utm%5Fmedium=press&utm%5Fcampaign=best-inventions&utm%5Fcontent=rebind) These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. Rebind: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094572/rebind/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094572/rebind/"},"headline":"Rebind: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T12:01:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:55:10.771Z","description":"Find out why Rebind is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094572/rebind/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0168355cf4a20c97/698a8a4cb21a9c175750f2f7/Rebind-2024.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Stokel-Walker","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-stokel-walker/"}],"creator":"Chris Stokel-Walker","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0168355cf4a20c97/698a8a4cb21a9c175750f2f7/Rebind-2024.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094572/rebind/","name":"Rebind: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]}] ```