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SendMyBookBot — A simple book reader for Telegram 📚
Hello fellow hunters!
Here is my small side project: SendMyBookBot is a Telegram bot that keeps your books remotely and sending a portion of it on demand.
Right now it's work in progress, I have plenty of features to implement here, need to see if somebody interested besides me.
Try it out and please leave your feedback, I am happy to hear it!
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Amrith
@a_losenko, clever idea for a bot! I wonder how many people would like to read books in the form of messages however 🤔
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@amrith I agree, reading through messenger is a bit weird, but such format has its own advantages as well (at least for me):
- you don't need separate app for reading;
- books saved in the cloud
- it's easier to receive updates (no manual updates on your phone, code of the bot updates only on server)
Later I want to add couple of features to make use of Telegram API:
- automatically send couple of pages everyday on previously set time (so you won't forget to read your book);
- send audio instead of text (convert text to audio using some text-to-speech API);
- save more than one book;
- support more text file formats (epub, txt, mobi)
Kind of like the idea, why not epub? PDF are not the best format for book (I mean I don't even have PDF of book only epub)
In the past we made https://jerome.gangneux.net/proj... with some friends, and reading a book in form of a chat could be quite fun (the approach is a little bit different but still)
@jrmgx Yes, epub is more popular than PDF, but for me it was faster to implement parsing of PDF instead, so I could launch the bot faster. Right now I am working on .epub and .mobi (which are basically the same, just .zip file).
Thanks, I appreciate your feedback!
@userdiegooli Hi, I've created pretty the same idea in my own bot https://www.producthunt.com/post...