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Reading papers without drowning in references

April 20, 2026

Getting the argument of a paper before the citation soup pulls you under.

Most papers bury their argument under citations, figure captions, and reference lists. The trick is to strip all of that first and get the shape of the claim before the soup pulls you under.

That frustration is the idea behind AURA Reader — clean the text, then read it (or listen to it) like an essay.