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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haven't heard about the Gutenberg project before, seems pretty neat!

I'd probably add repair.wiki to a list of things I'd archive, although some of that content is picture heavy so not as easily compressible as Wikipedia

There was a project that allows you to download wikipedia and some other online resources into an easy to search & navigate UI, think it was called Kiwi something but can't remember. It was targeted at regions with poor internet coverage

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yup Kiwix, an app available for Android, iOS, Linux and possibly other OSs too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Project Gutenberg has been a thing for a couple decades. I think they are starting to also create free audiobooks from books they have in their collection. There is an TTS AI service that I checked out a week ago (play.ht)and that does voicing very realistically from the text that I gave it and I might spring spend $40 for a month of that service and build some audiobooks. The paid version gives access to more voices and will do 1 million characters of text a year.

Or if anyone knows a good open source online alternative, I'm all ears. I'd prefer to go that route but did not give anything that was a very good solution.