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Readest - Open source, cross-platform ereader (www.readest.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by gramgan@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 hours ago

© 2025 Bilingify LLC.

[–] plusboy@lemm.ee 25 points 7 hours 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 14 points 6 hours ago

Especially geolocation data...

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Alternatively there is BookStory on for Android

[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

Another privacy nightmare.

[–] Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 25 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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

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

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

[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 10 points 8 hours 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 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is Foliate available for android?

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] ethancedwards8@programming.dev 11 points 10 hours ago

This was recently packaged in nixpkgs. FWIW.

[–] land@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] spikesforeyes@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 7 hours ago

Take a look at Kavita for selfhosting bools!