KindleEar has been reborn (a simplified calibre running in cloud)

[cdhigh]

What is KindleEar?
In a nutshell: A simplified version of calibre running in the cloud.

It's been half a year since Google App Engine stopped deploying Python 2 applications, and now KindleEar 3.0 is finally released, bringing with it brand new features:

• Full support for Python 3
• Redesigned software architecture
• Cross-platform support, freeing you from dependence on GAE platform
• Support for Calibre's recipe format without the need for modification
• Built-in library of over a thousand Calibre recipe files
• Integrated bilingual translation feature, breaking language barriers for effortless information retrieval and language learning
• Built-in text-to-speech functionality, transforming daily news into audio for easy consumption without reading
• Includes a browser extension, enabling effortless creation of web scraping recipe without coding, facilitating seamless content delivery from any website (brag)

For more details, please refer to the
project depository
or
project documentation




Deployment:
Although there isn't a one-click deployment method, deploying this application on either GAE or VPS only requires executing a single command in the shell:

Deployment on GAE:

rm -rf kindleear && \
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdhigh/kindleear.git && \
chmod +x kindleear/tools/gae_deploy.sh && \
kindleear/tools/gae_deploy.sh

Deployment using Docker:

mkdir data && \
sudo docker run -d -p 80:8000 -v ./data:/data --restart always -e APP_DOMAIN=yourdomain kindleear/kindleear

[therealTOEBEANS]

This is very cool! Glad to see an old project getting new life.

[Quoth]

The Cloud is just marketing for "someone else's server".

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

The Cloud is just marketing for "someone else's server".

Given that The Cloud is just a computer connected to the Internet, every computer with an Internet connection is a Cloud.

[cdhigh]

Two interesting ideas:
"someone else's server"
vs
"every computer with an Internet connection is a Cloud".

I never thought through what the cloud indeed is.
I just identify cloud as a server, merely a fancier term that sounds more sophisticated.

[Quoth]

Years ago, when you didn't want to detail how inter-networked computers connected, you drew a cloud symbol with lines going into it from the modems, terminals, PCs, ttys, minicomputers and servers.

The cloud doesn't exist as such. It's just abstracing the detail of connections.

The "cloud" is really what connects your modem to someone else's server.

The Internet using IP addresses existed long before either HTML or websites existed.

The "cloud" existed even before IP, using ttys and phone lines from 1928 and X.25 from the late 1970s, often a node was accessed via 300 baud dialup using a PAD.

Arpanet was the precusor of Bitnet, which could be accessed via X.25 and a gateway server. I did email and telex that way using CP/M in mid 1980s (IBM PCs were x3 price). Bitnet became Internet (Inter-connected networks).

Your PC may communicate with the cloud. Internet is simply the common Cloud today.

Your PC isn't the cloud. Marketing is a lie. There are just servers or clients connected by the "cloud".

So my first statement was in one sense inaccurate, but in the context of using a remote service it is more accurate.

What happens when the edge routers of your ISP or the hosting provider or remote server "warehouse" get a bad patch?

Or someone digs up a cable.

Or the billing crashes?

I'll run my stuff on my stuff. Not some random 3rd party.