Gonna use them for e-mail marketing, Is that a good use? Should I retain it to resell? Is there any chance of being resold? What would be the best way to flip it? I am completely new to this, if nothing ill just use it for marketing emails
Every single time I see a books and AI related thread i cringe. The herd conscience seems to be pretty clear: "If you wrote AI to write your book.. you're done, I am never opening your book."
I want to talk about and get your opinion on the following use cases:
For Text
I feel like a lot of the nuance is required in this discussion...to me the extent to which or more so the use case for which the AI was used matters a lot more than the binary between if the author used ai or not. A book written with AI is completely different from a book where AI is used for editing, fact-checking, research, and so on.
Every time someone reduces it down like that I cringe.
For Audiobooks: AI vs Production Studios
A majority of authors on amazon use the inbuilt kdp narration for their audiobooks. Although these may sound alright on the surface they have a deeper flaw.. they don't understand the context of the scene, the emotions involved, the nuance of the scene, may mispronounce a word or two and are unable to deliver the dialogues as intended by the Authors.
You may also argue that these take away jobs from traditional narrators; but using production studios can get EXPENSIVE very fast; most charge like 70-100$ an hour.
To fix these I have been doing research for the past 5 months and have started Mimesa (see samples) which uses multiple distinct voices for each character and is the best in the market for emotional delivery and engagement; we use a hybrid ai/human pipeline to achieve this result (DISCLOSER: this is my agency; the intention of this post is NOT to advertise.)
Anyways that shouldn't change the fact that AI narration might be disrupting the current industry; I am curious to know tho, is that a bad thing in of itself? To me newer authors use AI narration as a free method and wouldn't purchase the services of a production studio regardless due to the out-of-budget costs? If you are an Author who has audiobooks, I wanna know your experience with both.
For Covers / Blurbs (worst use case imo)
I have seen SO MANY covers of books that SCREAM AI. The characters on the book themselves have that signature ai lighting. I personally am not against using AI but when the very cover is very obviously AI it makes me question the commitment and effort the author put into the work... If the covers gonna be AI please make sure it is still well done and not low effort.
The blurb being AI is another red flag for me for the same reason
tl;dr: To me AI is like fire. It is a good Servant but a bad Master. Do not let it overrun your work.
Stlll curious to know what everyone thinks, I am sure the majority agrees with me.
Every single time I see a books and AI related thread i cringe. The herd conscience seems to be pretty clear: "If you wrote AI to write your book.. you're done, I am never opening your book."
I want to talk about and get your opinion on the following use cases:
For Text
I feel like a lot of the nuance is required in this discussion...to me the extent to which or more so the use case for which the AI was used matters a lot more than the binary between if the author used ai or not. A book written with AI is completely different from a book where AI is used for editing, fact-checking, research, and so on.
Every time someone reduces it down like that I cringe.
For Audiobooks: AI vs Production Studios
A majority of authors on amazon use the inbuilt kdp narration for their audiobooks. Although these may sound alright on the surface they have a deeper flaw.. they don't understand the context of the scene, the emotions involved, the nuance of the scene, may mispronounce a word or two and are unable to deliver the dialogues as intended by the Authors.
You may also argue that these take away jobs from traditional narrators; but using production studios can get EXPENSIVE very fast; most charge like 70-100$ an hour.
To fix these I have been doing research for the past 5 months and have started Mimesa (see samples) which uses multiple distinct voices for each character and is the best in the market for emotional delivery and engagement; we use a hybrid ai/human pipeline to achieve this result (DISCLOSER: this is my agency; the intention of this post is NOT to advertise.)
Anyways that shouldn't change the fact that AI narration might be disrupting the current industry; I am curious to know tho, is that a bad thing in of itself? To me newer authors use AI narration as a free method and wouldn't purchase the services of a production studio regardless due to the out-of-budget costs? If you are an Author who has audiobooks, I wanna know your experience with both.
For Covers / Blurbs (worst use case imo)
I have seen SO MANY covers of books that SCREAM AI. The characters on the book themselves have that signature ai lighting. I personally am not against using AI but when the very cover is very obviously AI it makes me question the commitment and effort the author put into the work... If the covers gonna be AI please make sure it is still well done and not low effort.
The blurb being AI is another red flag for me for the same reason
tl;dr: To me AI is like fire. It is a good Servant but a bad Master. Do not let it overrun your work.
Stlll curious to know what everyone thinks, I am sure the majority agrees with me.
Every single time I see a books and AI related thread i cringe. The herd conscience seems to be pretty clear: "If you wrote AI to write your book.. you're done, I am never opening your book."
I want to talk about and get your opinion on the following use cases:
For Text
I feel like a lot of the nuance is required in this discussion...to me the extent to which or more so the use case for which the AI was used matters a lot more than the binary between if the author used ai or not. A book written with AI is completely different from a book where AI is used for editing, fact-checking, research, and so on.
Every time someone reduces it down like that I cringe.
For Audiobooks: AI vs Production Studios
A majority of authors on amazon use the inbuilt kdp narration for their audiobooks. Although these may sound alright on the surface they have a deeper flaw.. they don't understand the context of the scene, the emotions involved, the nuance of the scene, may mispronounce a word or two and are unable to deliver the dialogues as intended by the Authors.
You may also argue that these take away jobs from traditional narrators; but using production studios can get EXPENSIVE very fast; most charge like 70-100$ an hour.
To fix these I have been doing research for the past 5 months and have started Mimesa (see samples) which uses multiple distinct voices for each character and is the best in the market for emotional delivery and engagement; we use a hybrid ai/human pipeline to achieve this result (DISCLOSER: this is my agency) so we are able to offer production level quality + multi voice at a fraction of the costs...(dm for any info)
Anyways that shouldn't change the fact that AI narration might be disrupting the current industry; I am curious to know tho, is that a bad thing in of itself? To me newer authors use AI narration as a free method and wouldn't purchase the services of a production studio regardless due to the out-of-budget costs? If you are an Author who has audiobooks, I wanna know your experience with both.
For Covers / Blurbs (worst use case imo)
I have seen SO MANY covers of books that SCREAM AI. The characters on the book themselves have that signature ai lighting. I personally am not against using AI but when the very cover is very obviously AI it makes me question the commitment and effort the author put into the work... If the covers gonna be AI please make sure it is still well done and not low effort.
The blurb being AI is another red flag for me for the same reason
tl;dr: To me AI is like fire. It is a good Servant but a bad Master. Do not let it overrun your work.
Stlll curious to know what everyone thinks, I am sure the majority agrees with me.
Every single time I see a books and AI related thread i cringe. The herd conscience seems to be pretty clear: "If you wrote AI to write your book.. you're done, I am never opening your book."
I want to talk about and get your opinion on the following use cases:
For Text
I feel like a lot of the nuance is required in this discussion...to me the extent to which or more so the use case for which the AI was used matters a lot more than the binary between if the author used ai or not. A book written with AI is completely different from a book where AI is used for editing, fact-checking, research, and so on.
Every time someone reduces it down like that I cringe.
For Audiobooks: AI vs Production Studios
A majority of authors on amazon use the inbuilt kdp narration for their audiobooks. Although these may sound alright on the surface they have a deeper flaw.. they don't understand the context of the scene, the emotions involved, the nuance of the scene, may mispronounce a word or two and are unable to deliver the dialogues as intended by the Authors.
You may also argue that these take away jobs from traditional narrators; but using production studios can get EXPENSIVE very fast; most charge like 70-100$ an hour.
To fix these I have been doing research for the past 5 months and have started Mimesa (see samples) which uses multiple distinct voices for each character and is the best in the market for emotional delivery and engagement; we use a hybrid ai/human pipeline to achieve this result (DISCLOSER: this is my agency) so we are able to offer production level quality + multi voice at a fraction of the costs...(dm for any info)
Anyways that shouldn't change the fact that AI narration might be disrupting the current industry; I am curious to know tho, is that a bad thing in of itself? To me newer authors use AI narration as a free method and wouldn't purchase the services of a production studio regardless due to the out-of-budget costs? If you are an Author who has audiobooks, I wanna know your experience with both.
For Covers / Blurbs (worst use case imo)
I have seen SO MANY covers of books that SCREAM AI. The characters on the book themselves have that signature ai lighting. I personally am not against using AI but when the very cover is very obviously AI it makes me question the commitment and effort the author put into the work... If the covers gonna be AI please make sure it is still well done and not low effort.
The blurb being AI is another red flag for me for the same reason
tl;dr: To me AI is like fire. It is a good Servant but a bad Master. Do not let it overrun your work.
Stlll curious to know what everyone thinks, I am sure the majority agrees with me.
I want to start sending cold outreach emails (100-200 a day). I am a complete beginner and have never done this before. I have a AI Audiobook agency and want to start cold outreach to authors/publishing houses etc. Currently I manually find leads put them into a sheet and then send mails from my gmail.
I have two of my own domains routing incoming mails to them into my gmail, but my outreach has been from gmail itself, and am a technical founder but this is my first ever time doing anything related to marketing/sales etc.
How should I start? I have realised my current method is widely inefficient and is bound to start ending up in spam? Haven't closed a single deal just yet, (its a marketing problem; since our marketing is basically non-existent) we are bootstrapped and have very limited funds.
Any and all help/advice is appreciated. Including tips, what tools should i start with, what the actual expected reply rate would be, is email marketing still useful or should i try other avenues etc. Thanks.
tl;dr: https://www.reddit.com/r/ebooks/s/5AIVBKFjO2 i made an app for public domain classics where you can access all 77000+ Project Gutenberg books and 22000+ Librivox audiobooks in one interface. Initiallly the app was only available on android. but since people loved the app a lot and i got tons of DMs asking for an iOS version, its out now. Hope all of you like it. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimesa/id6789941207
I built it because i prefer reading and listening to books at the same time (helps me retain what i read) and the existing solutions were riddled with ads. This app is my contribution/attempt to give back to the community.
If there are indie authors reading this and would like to have their works published on the app please feel free to reach out.
Please keep in mind that the app is in early development, would love any and all feedback, thx. I try to maintain it in my free time. Much Love.
Hello! 19 year old Indie Developer here, I love reading books and wanted to contribute back to the community. It is PERFECT for you if you like audiobooks and reading on your phone.
Its made with A LOT of love and care and I would be open to all feedback
For the past few months I have been working on Mimesa. It’s a reading and listening app for people who want to read more, but don’t always have the time to sit down with a book. The idea is simple: take free classic books, LibriVox audiobooks, PDFs, and EPUBs, and put them into one clean app where you can read, listen, or follow along with both.
It’s kind of like a mix between an ebook reader and an audiobook app, but focused on public-domain books and personal documents.
How it works
Pick a book from the library, or upload your own PDF/EPUB.
Open it in the reader, or start listening like an audiobook.
If LibriVox audio is available, you can listen and follow along with the text.
For books or documents without human narration, the app can use AI narration to turn text into audio.
Some of its features
It has a catalog of 75,000+ free public-domain books, including a lot of classic literature, philosophy, poetry, history, fiction, and more. Think books like Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Meditations, and other classics.
It also includes 22,000+ human-narrated LibriVox audiobooks, so you can listen to a large collection of classic books for free. I wanted to make LibriVox and public-domain books feel less like old archives and more like a modern mobile app.
It works as an EPUB/PDF reader too, so you can upload your own books or documents and keep them in a private library. This can be useful for students, long PDFs, essays, research papers, or just books you already have.
There’s also AI narration for turning books and documents into audio when a human audiobook is not available. The goal is to make reading more flexible: read when you can focus, listen when you’re walking or commuting, and follow along when you want both.
The app has synced text highlighting as well, so the text can track along with narration instead of making reading and listening feel like two separate things.
I’m still early and trying to improve the first user experience, especially onboarding and making it obvious what to try first. The app is Android only for now, with iOS planned later once I sort out Apple developer enrollment.
There are no ads. The main goal is to get feedback from people who read classics, listen to audiobooks, use LibriVox, or want a better way to get through long books/documents.
If you have any feedback, questions, or brutally honest thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.
You can download it from
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mimesa
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimesa/id6789941207
site: https://mimesa.org/
Tl;Dr: Made a Reading Platform, think kindle + Audible in one. Ad free and completely free forever for librivox and public domain works. Optional AI reader features for books without a human narration. Import your own documents/epubs. Perfect if you love classic literature
tl;dr: https://www.reddit.com/r/ebooks/s/5AIVBKFjO2 i made an app for public domain classics where you can access all 77000+ Project Gutenberg books and 22000+ Librivox audiobooks in one interface. Initiallly the app was only available on android. but since people loved the app a lot and i got tons of DMs asking for an iOS version, its out now. Hope all of you like it. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimesa/id6789941207
I built it because i prefer reading and listening to books at the same time (helps me retain what i read) and the existing solutions were riddled with ads. This app is my contribution/attempt to give back to the community.
If there are indie authors reading this and would like to have their works published on the app please feel free to reach out.
Please keep in mind that the app is in early development, would love any and all feedback, thx. I try to maintain it in my free time. Much Love.
I genuinely believe this to be one of the best reading apps you can have...
Hello! 19 year old Indie dev here, I love reading books and wanted to contribute back to the community. It is PERFECT for you if you like audiobooks and reading on your phone.
I noticed that the most popular free audiobook platforms are RIDDLED with ads throughout and have horrible ui, so i set out to solve this.
Its made with A LOT of love and care and I would be open to all feedback.
For the past few months I have been working on Mimesa. It’s a reading and listening app for people who want to read more, but don’t always have the time to sit down with a book. The idea is simple: take free classic books, LibriVox audiobooks, PDFs, and EPUBs, and put them into one clean app where you can read, listen, or follow along with both.
It’s kind of like a mix between an ebook reader and an audiobook app, but focused on public-domain books and personal documents.
How it works
Pick a book from the library, or upload your own PDF/EPUB.
Open it in the reader, or start listening like an audiobook.
If LibriVox audio is available, you can listen and follow along with the text.
For books or documents without human narration, the app can use AI narration to turn text into audio.
Some of its features
I’m still early and trying to improve the first user experience, especially onboarding and making it obvious what to try first. The app is Android only for now, with iOS planned later once I sort out Apple developer enrollment.
There are no ads. The main goal is to get feedback from people who read classics, listen to audiobooks, use LibriVox, or want a better way to get through long books/documents.
If you have any feedback, questions, or brutally honest thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.
ios coming very soon, if good traction on android.
Tl;Dr: Made a Reading Platform, think kindle + Audible in one. Ad free and completely free forever for librivox and public domain works. Optional AI reader features for books without a human narration. Import your own documents/epubs. Perfect if you love classic literature
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Hello! 19 year old Indie Developer here, I love reading books and wanted to contribute back to the community. It is PERFECT for you if you like audiobooks and reading on your phone.
Its made with A LOT of love and care and I would be open to all feedback
For the past few months I have been working on Mimesa. It’s a reading and listening app for people who want to read more, but don’t always have the time to sit down with a book. The idea is simple: take free classic books, LibriVox audiobooks, PDFs, and EPUBs, and put them into one clean app where you can read, listen, or follow along with both.
It’s kind of like a mix between an ebook reader and an audiobook app, but focused on public-domain books and personal documents.
How it works
Pick a book from the library, or upload your own PDF/EPUB.
Open it in the reader, or start listening like an audiobook.
If LibriVox audio is available, you can listen and follow along with the text.
For books or documents without human narration, the app can use AI narration to turn text into audio.
Some of its features
It has a catalog of 75,000+ free public-domain books, including a lot of classic literature, philosophy, poetry, history, fiction, and more. Think books like Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Meditations, and other classics.
It also includes 22,000+ human-narrated LibriVox audiobooks, so you can listen to a large collection of classic books for free. I wanted to make LibriVox and public-domain books feel less like old archives and more like a modern mobile app.
It works as an EPUB/PDF reader too, so you can upload your own books or documents and keep them in a private library. This can be useful for students, long PDFs, essays, research papers, or just books you already have.
There’s also AI narration for turning books and documents into audio when a human audiobook is not available. The goal is to make reading more flexible: read when you can focus, listen when you’re walking or commuting, and follow along when you want both.
The app has synced text highlighting as well, so the text can track along with narration instead of making reading and listening feel like two separate things.
I’m still early and trying to improve the first user experience, especially onboarding and making it obvious what to try first. The app is Android only for now, with iOS planned later once I sort out Apple developer enrollment.
There are no ads. The main goal is to get feedback from people who read classics, listen to audiobooks, use LibriVox, or want a better way to get through long books/documents.
If you have any feedback, questions, or brutally honest thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.
You can download it from the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mimesa
site: https://mimesa.org/
Tl;Dr: Made a Reading Platform, think kindle + Audible in one. Ad free and completely free forever for librivox and public domain works. Optional AI reader features for books without a human narration. Import your own documents/epubs. Perfect if you love classic literature
I genuinely believe this to be one of the best reading apps you can have...
Hello! 19 year old Indie developer here, I love reading books and wanted to contribute back to the community. It is PERFECT for you if you like audiobooks and reading on your phone.
I noticed that the most popular free audiobook platforms are RIDDLED with ads throughout and have horrible ui, so i set out to solve this.
Its made with A LOT of love and care and I would be open to all feedback.
For the past few months I have been working on Mimesa. It’s a reading and listening app for people who want to read more, but don’t always have the time to sit down with a book. The idea is simple: take free classic books, LibriVox audiobooks, PDFs, and EPUBs, and put them into one clean app where you can read, listen, or follow along with both.
It’s kind of like a mix between an ebook reader and an audiobook app, but focused on public-domain books and personal documents.
How it works
Pick a book from the library, or upload your own PDF/EPUB.
Open it in the reader, or start listening like an audiobook.
If LibriVox audio is available, you can listen and follow along with the text.
For books or documents without human narration, the app can use AI narration to turn text into audio.
Some of its features
I’m still early and trying to improve the first user experience, especially onboarding and making it obvious what to try first. The app is Android only for now, with iOS planned later once I sort out Apple developer enrollment.
There are no ads. The main goal is to get feedback from people who read classics, listen to audiobooks, use LibriVox, or want a better way to get through long books/documents.
If you have any feedback, questions, or brutally honest thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.
You can download it from the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mimesa
ios coming very soon, if good traction on android.
Tl;Dr: Made a Reading Platform, think kindle + Audible in one. Ad free and completely free forever for librivox and public domain works. Optional AI reader features for books without a human narration. Import your own documents/epubs. Perfect if you love classic literature
[Mods can delete this if it breaks any rules, I sincerely hope not ]
I genuinely believe this to be one of the best reading apps you can have...
Hello! 19 year old Indian Developer studying in Dubai here, I love reading books and wanted to contribute back to the community. It is PERFECT for you if you like audiobooks and reading on your phone.
I noticed that the most popular free audiobook platforms are RIDDLED with ads throughout and have horrible ui, so i set out to solve this.
Its made with A LOT of love and care and I would be open to all feedback.
For the past few months I have been working on Mimesa. It’s a reading and listening app for people who want to read more, but don’t always have the time to sit down with a book. The idea is simple: take free classic books, LibriVox audiobooks, PDFs, and EPUBs, and put them into one clean app where you can read, listen, or follow along with both.
It’s kind of like a mix between an ebook reader and an audiobook app, but focused on public-domain books and personal documents.
How it works
Pick a book from the library, or upload your own PDF/EPUB.
Open it in the reader, or start listening like an audiobook.
If LibriVox audio is available, you can listen and follow along with the text.
For books or documents without human narration, the app can use AI narration to turn text into audio.
Some of its features
I’m still early and trying to improve the first user experience, especially onboarding and making it obvious what to try first. The app is Android only for now, with iOS planned later once I sort out Apple developer enrollment.
There are no ads. The main goal is to get feedback from people who read classics, listen to audiobooks, use LibriVox, or want a better way to get through long books/documents.
If you have any feedback, questions, or brutally honest thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.
You can download it from the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mimesa
ios coming very soon, if good traction on android.
Tl;Dr: Made a Reading Platform, think kindle + Audible in one. Ad free and completely free forever for librivox and public domain works. Optional AI reader features for books without a human narration. Import your own documents/epubs. Perfect if you love classic literature
P.S If anyone knows any good corpus of hindi / native language public domain book corpus please drop it in the comments looking to add more of those.
[Mods can delete this if it breaks any rules, I sincerely hope not ]
Hello! 19 year old Indie Developer here, I love reading books and wanted to contribute back to the community. It is PERFECT for you if you like audiobooks and reading on your phone.
Its made with A LOT of love and care and I would be open to all feedback
For the past few months I have been working on Mimesa. It’s a reading and listening app for people who want to read more, but don’t always have the time to sit down with a book. The idea is simple: take free classic books, LibriVox audiobooks, PDFs, and EPUBs, and put them into one clean app where you can read, listen, or follow along with both.
It’s kind of like a mix between an ebook reader and an audiobook app, but focused on public-domain books and personal documents.
How it works
Pick a book from the library, or upload your own PDF/EPUB.
Open it in the reader, or start listening like an audiobook.
If LibriVox audio is available, you can listen and follow along with the text.
For books or documents without human narration, the app can use AI narration to turn text into audio.
Some of its features
It has a catalog of 75,000+ free public-domain books, including a lot of classic literature, philosophy, poetry, history, fiction, and more. Think books like Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Meditations, and other classics.
It also includes 22,000+ human-narrated LibriVox audiobooks, so you can listen to a large collection of classic books for free. I wanted to make LibriVox and public-domain books feel less like old archives and more like a modern mobile app.
It works as an EPUB/PDF reader too, so you can upload your own books or documents and keep them in a private library. This can be useful for students, long PDFs, essays, research papers, or just books you already have.
There’s also AI narration for turning books and documents into audio when a human audiobook is not available. The goal is to make reading more flexible: read when you can focus, listen when you’re walking or commuting, and follow along when you want both.
The app has synced text highlighting as well, so the text can track along with narration instead of making reading and listening feel like two separate things.
I’m still early and trying to improve the first user experience, especially onboarding and making it obvious what to try first. The app is Android only for now, with iOS planned later once I sort out Apple developer enrollment.
There are no ads. The main goal is to get feedback from people who read classics, listen to audiobooks, use LibriVox, or want a better way to get through long books/documents.
If you have any feedback, questions, or brutally honest thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.
You can download it from the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mimesa
Tl;Dr: Made a Reading Platform, think kindle + Audible in one. Ad free and completely free forever for librivox and public domain works. Optional AI reader features for books without a human narration. Import your own documents/epubs. Perfect if you love classic literature
[Mods can delete this if it breaks any rules, I sincerely hope not ]
This app is my attempt at contributing to public domain works, I am not a good author unfortunately but i am a good engineer. So here it is. The goal is to make Literature accessible without the hassle of ads and privately..
The app is COMPLETELY FREE to use for LibriVox recordings and unlimited reading.
The app has all 22000+ Librivox Audio Books
All of the 75000+ project gutenberg ebooks and also the 1400+ standard ebooks collection.
The ebooks and Librivox recordings and linked so that you can listen and read in the same interface.
Optional AI narration (for books that do not have librivox recordings)
I genuinely believe its a great app. NOT SLOP. Its unfortunate that most community mods in this space are paid by giants like Audible and Eleven Labs and keep deleting my posts for "self promotion"... Its sad. the app is called mimesa and its on the play store. iOS on the way. the site is mimesa . org
I would love any and all feedback regarding the same including criticism, Thanks. A fellow reader.
