This is great! I would love an explicit "set bookmark to here" button if I scroll up from the high watermark
I discovered the reset, but it took a minute and I expect given the way I read being able to explicitly walk the high watermark back a bit would be nice (maybe that's doable if you select text? I didn't try!)
The format is nice, I love standard ebooks
I opened Moby Dick but didn't see how to listen to it on my phone, not sure what the status of the "listen" effort is.
I listened to some books from standard ebooks using eleven labs, but I'm really excited about a better implementation
Unrelated, but all I want is a letterboxd for books, with the light social aspect, the ability to log a read multiple times, and with a great interface. I read my hope for this into the title of this post, unfortunately.
have you seen https://literal.club ? For me it works quite well, i can log my reads there and can follow accounts of friends who have a good book taste
i've been building this over the last two weeks, it first started as a reader for standard ebooks (https://standardebooks.org/), with clean typography, progress tracking, and nice deep linking (try clicking on a paragraph to create a mark and copy it to your clipboard)
but i think i really unlocked something when i discovered the amazing recordings on https://librivox.org, i've been spending the last few days frying my macbook's gpu to do neural alignment so that you can sync an audiobook with its text counterpart, to make switching between the text and the audio seamless
it's a ctc forced-alignment over the whole audiobook, keyed to the same paragraph anchors i used for progress tracking and linking
the aligner already supports french (it's meta's massively multilingual speech model under the hood), so it would all work today, but i started on standard ebooks, which is english-only.
but gutenberg and librivox both have french libraries so i could absolutely do that next!
I guess you don't tread the same internet waters.
https://www.royalroad.com/home https://archiveofourown.org/ and the good old link rings like https://topwebfiction.com/
First impression: autoplay of noisy audio when you go to a book is awful. Please don't do this.
> Humanity has a massive corpus of fiction, thanks to copyright law...
Seems a strange thing to credit first.
https://tale.fyi/tell says you need to sign in to tell your own story, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that (I'm on Firefox Android).
good catch, thanks
I discovered the reset, but it took a minute and I expect given the way I read being able to explicitly walk the high watermark back a bit would be nice (maybe that's doable if you select text? I didn't try!)
The format is nice, I love standard ebooks
I opened Moby Dick but didn't see how to listen to it on my phone, not sure what the status of the "listen" effort is.
I listened to some books from standard ebooks using eleven labs, but I'm really excited about a better implementation
i know, it makes me sad too, i'll keep working on it
this is the list of everything: https://tale.fyi/audiobooks
librivox is all human volunteers, so i think it makes a difference from eleven labs, but i might add a fallback to ai readings for folks who want that
reset feedback noted!
What does this mean?
If you want to join the beta, just email me at [email protected]. We've got about 100 people using it right now.
We are working on goodreads/storygraph imports, and then adding folders. It already supports multiple reads and more.
https://clz.com/books
I used LibraryThing a bit ago, but now I have a note with a list of books I add to regularly.
but i think i really unlocked something when i discovered the amazing recordings on https://librivox.org, i've been spending the last few days frying my macbook's gpu to do neural alignment so that you can sync an audiobook with its text counterpart, to make switching between the text and the audio seamless
it's a ctc forced-alignment over the whole audiobook, keyed to the same paragraph anchors i used for progress tracking and linking
i think it's really cool? let me know
but gutenberg and librivox both have french libraries so i could absolutely do that next!