This chapter exists because the raw materials of an AI-assisted reading and research workflow are scattered across dozens of demos, prompts, and product philosophies — and assembling them ad hoc is slow. After reading it you will be able to design your own learning and research workflow: choose the right tool for each job, build reading scaffolds and flashcard pipelines, query whole books and large document corpora, and recognize — honestly — where AI still fails you. You will be able to explore with AI rather than outsource your thinking to it. Everything here is drawn from the source material below; where evidence is thin or contested, that is stated plainly rather than smoothed over.