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I updated the app to allow manual add/delete of pages. Then tap the page and do New Image to upload per page. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks! I have not tried anything other than English, not sure how good the LLMs are for that. Did you use Tesseract or Gemini?

Once the page structure is set up from the images (via the directory upload), you can upload new images for each page, but I didn't include an option to just create all the pages manually. It's a good idea. Going to add that...

coincidentally, posted this over on Show HN today. OCR workbench, AI OCR & editing tools for OCRing old / hard documents. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976450. Tesseract works fine for modern text documents, but it fails badly on older docs (e.g. colonial american, etc)

Those of us "of a certain age" are grateful not to look at a screen of 30 videos, all of them illegible because our eyes are old :)

Depends a bit on what you want to accomplish.

I use Jekyll/Minimal Mistakes/Github pages for product blogs, where I just want to broadcast information or have it available for people to find through search, and where I need to own and brand the domain name itself.

I use Substack for a few projects where I want a stronger relationship with the audience - commenting, automatic email list building and distribution, and easy/attractive formatting. I just keep the Substack free, and don't worry about the domain name (x.substack.com) is fine.

Same. The view changing every time I click is very disorienting. and have to zoom back out after every click

Love this concept!

Implementation seems a bit erratic, e.g. tried it on the Richard I page (Richard the Lionheart), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England and get most random modern dates of research articles, and virtually none of the basic dates of his life (birth death, etc).

Book Roulette is a Chrome Extension that shows you a new, hopefully interesting, book each time you open a tab. It also shows you a few recent articles from around the web that mention the book.

There are a few other Chrome extensions out there that do this. 100 Million Books, for instance, is very nice. The reason I don't care for it is the books are completely random, and often super esoteric.

Book Roulette uses the backed from the book recommendation engine The Hawaii Project which scans over a thousand book review websites to see what people are talking about. Book Roulette pulls from the more popular books on a given day so the results are likely to be topical some way.

Enjoy! (It's free, but the Amazon and Bookshop links are wired to my affiliate account so if you buy I do get a commission).

I run a social reading app call Bookship (think, virtual book club). https://www.bookshipapp.com

App Tier on iOS, Android, Web, from a single source built with: Ionic V1 / Javascript

in-app Live Video Chat through JITSI

Deep Linking to app by Branch

Web hosting: EC2/Route53/Cloudfront

Web Analytics: Mixpanel

Server (old school: Mysql/PHP, MYSQL on AWS RDS server, PHP on the web servers @ EC2)

Source code mgmt: Github

IDE: Vs Code/Xemacs

Node + SimplePiE for ingesting and processing RSS feeds mentioning books.

Lifecycle email services through Mailgun.

Lifecycle text messages through Twilio

Blog via AWS Lightsail/Wordpress

Social media automation: Buffer

This is pretty cool, actually.

Bookship is social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with your family, friends and co-workers. Invite people to read along with you, whether they’re reading via a physical book, an ebook, even an audiobook. Post and react to thoughts, photos/videos, quotes, links and questions, in an easy-to-use chat-style interface. Get notified when others post and share your place in the book with them to stay in sync. Dog-ear passages with a quick photo on your phone, and even have Bookship extract the text from the page you took a picture of.

Thanks! Just launched and would love feedback. iOS and Android. Built with Ionic.

This was built at the CODEX books hackathon this past weekend at MIT.

Thanks for passing that along. Spin is actually in the system (http://www.thehawaiiproject.com/book/Spin--by--Robert-Charle...) but I think my keyword search ranking approach isn't picking it up in the keyword search box...something to improve.

which books are we missing? want to take a look....thx.

Thanks. I can reproduce when I set "block sites from setting any data", caused by a 3rd party tool I use. I will have to figure some way to fix it. Thanks for reporting. In the meantime if you want to explore you'll have to turn that setting off... :(

Whoops. I use a 3rd party tool to manage user data and that requires access to local storage. I'll have to look into engineering that requirement out unless you have a user account. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thank you this is great feedback. I agree with you the navbar is kind of a mess. I've got a code branch in progress to clean that up substantially.

I'm a recovering executive remembering how to code, and my design skills are awful. I have a designer friend giving me styling advice. It is too heavy. I was going for that hawaii feel but I think it's too much :)

My articles is getting a revamp shortly - the gist is, just as you can get book recommendations, you can get article recommendations about books - kind of a Flipboard for Books or StumbleUpon for Books. But that feature is still formative....i.e. not really ready for primetime.

Thanks for this. Keep it coming. You can find my email address on the About Us page if you want to send more.

Let me investigate. Neither of those should be required but perhaps something's busted. Browser you're using?

Thanks. Looks like jquery's not loading. either it's because of load, or perhaps you have javascript blocked? (more likely somehow load related. I'll take a look)

thanks for notes on design. I suspect the page loading is because my server's getting hammered right now :)

Very much so, like Hype Machine (which I love), with the caveat that THP is personalized, whereas Hype Machine is more one-size-fits-all in terms of the music it recommends, it doesn't really know whether I like EDM or Jazz and act accordingly.

It's around 800 right now - I curate all the source sites by hand at present, to ensure quality. If there's something you think I should add let me know...

Thanks for looking. Because I get book recommendations from the blogosphere, older books don't get found as quickly unless someone is writing about them.... I added in Omnibus - here: http://www.thehawaiiproject.com/book/The-New-Turing-Omnibus-.... Thanks!

thank you. feedback welcome.

Goodreads tends to be more of a socially-driven environment, I find that my friends don't read what I read.

The Hawaii Project is constantly scanning what the blogosphere is writing about in terms of books, and then matching that to your tastes and interests (topics, authors, website sources), so the recommendations always stay fresh and timely - vs Goodreads, which tends to be pretty static (if you like X you'll like Y). I may not care about all the books that say, the New York Times Book Review writes about, but if I'm into historical fiction and they review a book of that sort, I'll get a recommendation for it.

THP also has an index of articles from the web about particular books, and the ability to quickly browse what sites are writing about - kind of like a books-oriented news reader

It also generates a weekly mail with books that match your interests and authors that are being written about, so you don't have to go looking for them or miss a book from your favorite author.

And yes, my design skills need help :)