tale.fyi
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a home for fiction on the web: read, write, and hear whole tales on one page for free. no ads. by @samuelcole.name https://tale.fyi/
tale.fyi is now in the apple app store! apps.apple.com/us/app/tale-... nearly 2,000 classics to read and listen to on your phone or mac. sign in on both and your place in the book follows you. free. no account required, no ads #audiobooks #booksky #books
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super excited to announce that we just synced some more shakespeare plays: tale.fyi/julius-caesar tale.fyi/hamlet more: tale.fyi/author/willi... #audiobooks #publicdomain #booksky
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
You get political persuasion at close range: Brutus speaks as if reason can keep a republic clean, while Cassius understands how fear and resentment move people. The funeral speeches are thrilling to ...
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does anyone want to test an ios app for reading and/or listening to public domain classic novels? dm me or email sam@tale.fyi #booksky #publicdomain #audiobooks
another new batch of synced audiobooks just went live! anyone up for a beautiful reading of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf read by Cori Samuel? tale.fyi/to-the-light... #booksky #audiobook #publicdomain
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
You settle into the Ramsays’ house and find whole emotional lives unfolding inside a glance, a dinner, or Lily Briscoe’s struggle with her painting. It’s quiet, formally strange, and sometimes slow, b...
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last night i went on a faulkner journey! faulkner’s books are coming into the public domain one by one, each january 1st anyways, all this to say, you can now read and hear faulkner’s early work on tale tale.fyi/as-i-lay-dying #booksky #publicdomain #books #reading
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Fifteen narrators take turns telling one grim, weirdly funny wagon trip to bury their mother, and you piece it together yourself, including a chapter that's just "My mother is a fish." Disorienting at...
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just shipped the audiobook sync for ulysses! (circe was throwing off the alignment, which does seem poetic) The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. — Ulysses, James Joyce tale.fyi/ulysses/CofP... #booksky
Ulysses by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce, as one long readable page, with a passage highlighted.
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“Ah, there’s no friends like the old friends,” she said, “when all is said and done, no friends that a body can trust.” — Dubliners, James Joyce tale.fyi/dubliners/gS...
Dubliners by James Joyce
Dubliners by James Joyce, as one long readable page, with a passage highlighted.
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it’s my (@samuelcole.name) birthday today, and for my birthday i would like you to read (or hear) tale.fyi/new-grub-str... it’s about money and fiction and what happens when they mix
New Grub Street by George Gissing
You get a painfully sharp look at literary ambition through Edwin Reardon’s scruples and poverty, set against Jasper Milvain’s cheerful careerism. It’s bleak, talk-heavy, and slow in places, but the c...
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just shipped a new set of 28 audiobooks you can read and hear at once, including: The Great Gatsby - tale.fyi/gatsby Mrs. Dalloway - tale.fyi/mrs-dalloway The Maltese Falcon - tale.fyi/the-maltese-falcon & a new Nancy Drew shelf: tale.fyi/~nancy-drew #BookSky #PublicDomain #audiobooks
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
You watch Gatsby stare at that green light across the bay and slowly realize the whole glittering party is built on wanting one thing he can't have. It's short, sad, and gorgeous sentence by sentence,...
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now taking requests! tale.fyi/@sam/now-tak... you can now request any @gutenberg.org book, and we will do our best to align it to a LibriVox recording, or just hand you the text in our reader #BookSky #AudiobookSky #PublicDomain
Now taking requests!
Now taking requests! by samuel cole, as one long readable page.
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whispersync for the open web announcing the tale book <-> audio aligner is now open source: github.com/samuelcole/t... read on the tale.fyi reader: tale.fyi/audiobooks #BookSky #Audiobooks
tale now has a submission workflow for literary journals editors can open a call. writers can submit drafts, keep editing, or withdraw before publication. accepted work appears with the published issue. if you edit a journal or zine, i'd love to hear from you! tale.fyi/curate #LitMags #WriterSky
Curate a list
Gather tales into a shareable list on tale.fyi, with a description and your own blurbs — for staff picks, zines, journals, classes, or just because.
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you can now narrate your own tale. after publishing, upload an mp3. tale lines up your recording with the text, and only shows the play button when it's confident in the alignment tale.fyi/tell #WriterSky #BookSky #AudiobookSky
Tell your own tale
Give your writing an elegant home on tale.fyi. A tale can be as long as a novel, and readers can keep their progress across devices.
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tell your tale: tale.fyi/tell?from=bsky over the last week we've been improving the authoring tools and giving you real metrics on how your story is landing what should we build next? #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
Tell your own tale
Give your writing an elegant home on tale.fyi. A tale can be as long as a novel, and readers can keep their progress across devices.
tale.fyi
wrote up how we built whispersync for the open web in only 6 days: 800 LibriVox audiobooks with 8,000 hours of audio have been aligned to produce 668 audiobooks that pass our strict quality gates. no llm required tale.fyi/@sam/alignin... #BookSky #audiobooks #buildinpublic #indieweb
Aligning 800 audiobooks (8,000 hours) to text in 6 days, no LLM in the loop
Aligning 800 audiobooks (8,000 hours) to text in 6 days, no LLM in the loop by samuel cole, as one long readable page.
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weekend read: tale.fyi/the-homemaker a 1924 novel that still resonates today, quick and sharp for a summer day #booksky #weekendreads
The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A quiet 1920s novel that still feels sneaky and radical: Eva goes out to work and blooms, Lester stays home reading poetry to the kids, and their angry little son Stephen finally settles. It's gentle ...
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worked on audio and reading syncing today, should be better than ever. find your next great listen: tale.fyi/audiobooks #BookSky #AudiobookSky #audiobook
Audiobooks
Listen to public-domain books on tale.fyi with human LibriVox narration and text that stays in sync.
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you can now see your followers, their email addresses, export it to your own mailing list, and even manually remove them you own your audience on tale tell your tale: tale.fyi/tell #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Storytelling
