Reading Engagement Platform

Chapter:
Begin yours.

Chapter gives educators the data they need to understand what students actually comprehend from their readings, and gives students the tools to engage more deeply with the material.

Chapter student reading interface
our platform
Engagement Engine
The Problem By the Numbers
70%
of undergraduates do not complete their assigned readings
6%
accuracy rate educators have when judging student reading comprehension

¹ Inside Higher Ed: "over 70% of students admitted they don't do the assigned readings for class." 2024

² Engelen, J. A. A., Camp, G., van de Pol, J., & de Bruin, A. B. H. (2018).

How It Works

Simple to use.
Serious in depth.

Chapter is a dedicated reading platform built for academic institutions. Students engage with assigned readings using purpose-built tools. Those interactions become actionable data for educators.

01

Upload & Set Objectives

Professors upload texts and define the learning objectives they expect students to meet, setting a clear benchmark before any reading begins.

02

Students Read & Engage

Students read within Chapter's clean interface, highlighting, annotating, and using reading tools. Every interaction is tracked time spent, scroll depth, notes taken, re-reads.

03

Professors Receive Insights

Instructors receive aggregate analytics showing how their class engaged with each reading. No individual surveillance. Just the insight needed to understand comprehension gaps and improve instruction.

The Platform

Built for every stakeholder

A seamless experience for students reading deeply, and a powerful dashboard for professors acting on data.

Student reading view
Student View
Reading tools, highlights, annotations & engagement tracking
Professor our platform view
Professor View
Aggregate comprehension data & professor-facing insights
L. B. Harper III
Founder & Manager
About Chapter

One thing,
done exceptionally well

Chapter Reading LLC was founded on a straightforward conviction: the most valuable thing a reading platform can offer universities is not content delivery it's meaningful data about whether students are actually learning.

We do one thing exceptionally well: capturing and presenting aggregate classroom-level comprehension data that helps professors teach better. That singular focus forged from experience inside university classrooms drives every product decision we make.

Chapter is not built to replace thinking. It is built to deepen it.

L. B. Harper III
Founder & Manager Chapter Reading LLC
Larry and his mother the inspiration behind Chapter
Larry & his mother the inspiration behind Chapter
Our Story

Where it all began

Chapter began not as a business idea, but as a personal solution. I originally set out to build a reading platform for my mother something that would make reading feel less overwhelming and more accessible, while still preserving the value of truly engaging with a text.

That initial intention shaped everything. Instead of creating a tool that shortcuts reading, Chapter was designed to support it to guide, clarify, and encourage deeper interaction with material.

What started as an effort to help one person read better evolved into a platform built to help anyone approach reading with confidence, structure, and purpose.

Our Team

The people building Chapter

A small, focused team of engineers and builders working to give educators real insight into student comprehension and students better tools to engage with their readings.

L. B. Harper III
L. B. Harper III
Founder & Manager
Founder of Chapter Reading LLC and graduating History senior at FSU. Larry built Chapter around a single conviction: universities deserve real data on how their students learn.LinkedIn
Will Schmidt
Will Schmidt
Software Engineer
Will leads front-end and full-stack development for the Chapter platform, translating product vision into a fast, intuitive reading experience built for serious academic use.LinkedIn
Jessica Neelam
Jessica Neelam
Data Engineer
Jessica architects Chapter's engagement tracking and analytics infrastructure ensuring the data pipeline is robust, accurate, and FERPA-compliant from the ground up.LinkedIn
Jason Broughton
Jason Broughton
Advisor
Director at the Library of Congress. Jason brings deep institutional knowledge of how reading, research, and information access shape learning at the highest levels guiding Chapter's mission and strategic direction.LinkedIn

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