i built a web based public domain book reader, synced with librivox performances

[samuelcole]

i love fiction, and i believe that it should be easier to read great literature while in line in the grocery store. here's my full write up: https://tale.fyi/@sam/announcing-tal...-a-single-link

the whole book is one long page. no account, no ads, keeps your place, nothing to install, works in any browser.

i think the synced audio is magical: the voices are librivox's human volunteers, not robot voices, and the sync is CTC forced alignment against the recording, no llm anywhere in the loop. press play wherever you are and the voice picks up from the paragraph you're looking at; let it run and the text scrolls itself. texts are standard ebooks and project gutenberg editions.

it also reads offline, but there's no download button; a book you've started is just kept. progress stays on your device, and tap a paragraph to share a link to it with a friend.

try one of my favorites: https://tale.fyi/dracula