An immersive, social reading app for book nerds

Show HN: Augre – A cross platform ePub reader for deep reading

An immersive, social reading app for book nerds is active in the show hn launch space.

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Hey HN,I built this originally last year because I was frustrated that epubs even though they are digital are not being fully utilized.I also read on many different platforms and I wanted all of my books to automatically sync.I also have a bunch of friends who read the same books, so I built a little chatroom that you can get into if you all have the same book.Lately voice models have gotten really good. So I also incorporated on device models which reads the book to you as an audiobook.The app is in Tauri and using InstantDB for the database and backend sync. Really love the work stopachka and folks are doing with that.Rust helps in doing a lot of the heavy lifting and onnx runtimes are gre

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Website: getaugre.com