Reader extras

Reader extras are small things a reader can do on a Share page that make it feel alive. Most are on by default. You choose which ones each Share offers under Reader extras in its detail pane in Shares.

What readers get#

• Reactions. On a Kit page, every section ends in a row of six emoji (clap, love, laugh, wow, thinking and celebrate) with counts that update every 30 seconds.

• Reading now. While two or more people have the page open, a quiet pill says how many are reading, for example "3 people reading".

• Print a poster. From the Reader menu, a reader can print or save a poster with the page title, its first picture and a "Scan to open" QR code.

• Guided tour. On a page with three or more sections, Show me around steps from section to section with a spotlight and short caption.

• Ambient sound. On a themed world page, Ambient sound plays browser-made soundscapes (waves for Ocean, fire for Cabin, wind and birds for nature) with volume, mix and sleep controls.

• Scratch-off cards. Readers rub away a card to reveal a prize, message or answer. A secret card's answer is not in the page until someone scratches it.

• Remix this Share. On a public page where you allow it, Remix this Share opens a copy in the reader's Yardmaster with your layout, look, words and pictures, without responses, comments or hidden surprises.

• Follow Me. While you present live, readers glide with your scroll position and active section, with a clear Stop following switch on the top-left pill.

• Highlight heat map. Readers highlight standout sentences and toggle Highlight heat map in the Reader menu to see a soft glow where the most people highlighted. Only counts are kept, never who highlighted.

• Reading level dial. In browsers with a built-in on-device language model, Reading level offers a five-step slider from Explain like I'm 10 to Expert that rewrites text locally and restores the original anytime. Where no local model exists, the control stays hidden. It never makes a paid call.

• Personal versions. One Share can hold personal sections for specific people ("for Sam"). Each person's link unlocks only their own greeting and section; it is never in the public page or anyone else's link.

• Easter eggs and badges. Hide small surprises in sections or phrases. Readers who explore the whole page and find them earn a browser-local Page Explorer badge in Badges & surprises.

• Checkpoint questions. A section can ask a quick question before the next section unlocks, with sealed answers that never appear in the page source.

• Sticker wall. At the bottom of a Kit page, readers signed in with Google can leave a sticker and a short guestbook line. You can hide or remove any sticker from the page.

• Countdown moment. When a launch timer hits zero, confetti fires at the same moment for everyone with the page open, synchronized to server time (or a calm banner when reduced motion is on).

Choose which extras a Share offers#

1. 1

   Select the Share in Shares.

2. 2

   Find Reader extras in the detail pane.

3. 3

   Set Reactions to Off, Signed in or Anyone, and switch any of the other extras on or off.

The change applies to the published page straight away. The link stays the same.

Signed in reactions ask the reader to sign in with Google before their first tap, so each person counts once. Anyone lets people react without signing in.

What only you can do#

An agent can turn any extra off for you. Turning Remix on, or opening Reactions to Anyone, is always your decision in the app. A page with a password or Google sign-in never offers Remix, and its reactions always need sign-in.

Privacy#

Reading now counts open pages in 30-second windows. It never stores who you are, your address or a cookie, and each count is deleted after 10 minutes. Reactions keep the counts plus each reader's own taps under a scrambled id that never holds their name, account or address and can't be linked across Shares, so a repeat tap never counts twice. Unpublishing a Share deletes them all. The poster shows only what the page itself already shows. Ambient sound is made in the reader's browser and loads nothing from anywhere.

Agents and reader extras#

When an agent makes a Share, it knows about these extras. It can write a tour caption for each section, add scratch-off cards, or pick a themed world that comes with its own soundscape. To start from someone else's page, give the agent the link of a page with Remix on and ask it to remix it.