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Originally Posted by Bradles
- I am willing to wear a cost of about US$10/month, which would account for about 10,000 summaries. This means cover generation would not be allowed. (Cover generation costs about 2c/image.)
- Would people be willing to set up their own OpenAI account, for which they would need to provide payment details to OpenAI and enter the API key in the plugin config? Then the user base could generate all the content they desired.
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I'm skeptical how sustainable self-funding would be beyond a small group of users. The
Ebook Translator plugin does what you are asking about (basically, bring your own credentials) and I have not seen any complaint or concern; that being said, it does also offer a credential-free Google Translate option too for those who don't want to go through that.
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Originally Posted by Bradles
- The plugin also generates book covers - really badly.
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I've had...I guess I could say,
useful results generating cover images from official publisher blurbs (though usually wordsmithed a bit to keep within word count limitations) combined with a contextual request ("image suitable for a book cover for a mass-market airport-style paperback edition", etc.) Any generated text is of course, slightly less than meaningful.
I'm also excited by the approached prototyped in the
Kindlefusion project to generate textual illustrations from a selected snippet of text. I've done the same kind of cut-and-paste manually in order to visualize scenes from what I was reading. This could be automated, but you'd need some mechanism to evaluate which textual passages might be meaningful ones to illustrate. (
Mobileread discussion of the same)
@mikhail_fil: You might also want to take a look at Google's
Talk To Books to see if that provides anything relevant to your use case. It's basically a more conversational-style shell over the text search function from Google Books.