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Hey all!

I just came across this a few minutes ago—looks amazing. It’s the only application of its kind I’ve seen that includes text-to-speech out of the box!

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[–] iuvi@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

Cool! Just make such proposal:

It would be awesome to introduce something like animation of page-flipping, small shadows and possibility to list pages "taking them by angles" like you can do it in Demo or Uploading on https://heyzine.com/

Thanks for Readest :) 👍

[–] plusboy@lemm.ee 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure a lot of people don't mind, but I'm going to avoid it due to its collection of usage data in the privacy policy. Really wish this didn't exist in apps that just format the contents of a file.

[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago

Especially geolocation data...

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So apparently you need to sign up for Sync feature, and the Sync server is not self-hostable…

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

It looked to me to be optional, but yeah I was curious about that too…

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Not really related to this, but Kotatsu, a manga reading app, let's you selfhost the sync server and I find that amazing.

[–] Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago

Important to note, looks like the server component is not self-hostable (and the client doesn't E2E encrypt).

[–] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago

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[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Another privacy nightmare.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This seems to be a Foliate fork. I have a blurry font problem with Foliate and couldn't use it for a while, but this one doesn't have that bug. Thanks for sharing.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is Foliate available for android?

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

I don't think so. This one has Android build but it seems to be in alpha stage.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Alternatively there is BookStory on for Android

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

I would recommend Librera FD for android. BookStory is still very early in development.

This was recently packaged in nixpkgs. FWIW.

[–] land@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Finally, I can get rid of Kindle. Time to self-host!

[–] spikesforeyes@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is your kindle updated to the latest version? I jailbroke mine and now I use Koreader exclusively.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Likewise. I am loving koreader

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

Take a look at Kavita for selfhosting bools!