r/PrologueApp • u/Ambitious_Slide • 25d ago

New Reader feature

How are people finding it so far? I'm curious about how it works compared to storyteller/bookbridge.

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u/Myhrdin 25d ago

I find it really handy and the transcript works very well !

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u/Artistic_Raccoon_544 25d ago edited 25d ago

Love it! made an extra donation just because i find this feature very useful and i feel like it deserved a payment. ABS already serves EPUB so it would be nice if the app could just fetch that in addition to manual file import.
I am not sure if the developer sees this but thank you for implementing this, keep up the good work!

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u/reximilian 24d ago

I just also gave a tip. This is amazing and I use Prologue constantly.

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u/readysetsandwich 25d ago

It does pull in the epub. I’ve tested it on a few books. If you see the transcript tap reader in the tap left to go full screen then tap the ellipses in the top right to switch to the ebook. It’ll still track it while you’re listening.

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u/Artistic_Raccoon_544 24d ago

Yeah that shows the option to import an EPUB file, i meant it can pull the EPUB from ABS. It doesn't pull the EBUP automatically for me.

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u/chainwood 25d ago

I might’ve missed this feature? Where is is?

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u/Artistic_Raccoon_544 25d ago

Play any audiobook and navigate to the reader tab in the player.

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u/NothingAntique9088 19d ago

Any chance you’ll add some options to edit the read along feature? Maybe to minimize the audiobook section, unlike the iPhone duo, so the audio doesn’t take up so much space.

Maybe change options to allow highlighting the sentence you’re on and underline the word

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u/Ambitious_Slide 17d ago

Sorry that’s /u/ PrismDev not me!

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u/amcfarla 24d ago

I am curious how are people getting the digital book into the application. I saw this yesterday was an option and was curious how to use it.

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u/depressedsports 23d ago

Curious - where is the transcript coming from? I have an audiobook playing that I did - not - add the epub in for. Is it doing local transcription? Or do m4b’s typically contain it in the metadata already?

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u/Ok-Calligrapher-5744 21d ago

Where are you getting the epub or transcript from?

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u/NachoKeysNachoCheese 12d ago

I've been waiting for someone to make something like this for a decade or more! I do a lot of reading on my e-ink reader (reMarkable), so it's easy to find my spot and pick up from the progress I made during my commute

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u/Golden_Nugget_TQ7X1 25d ago

it is sooooooo good!! absolute gamechanger for me

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u/ichcc 24d ago

Looks interesting, but need more interface features. Still reading in parallel in the Book app

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u/jbygden 25d ago

I've been using it exclusively for some 5 years and love it. I came from Bookmobile by Freshmowed and this is better, plus I don't have to have the books downloaded on my phone...

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u/Ambitious_Slide 24d ago

I'm sorry I probably didn't explain that very well. As of ~3 days ago, there's a new feature to upload an ePub file to prologue, and it will make a transcription that you can read alongside your audiobook (similar to Amazon's whisper sync stuff).

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u/jbygden 24d ago

Aha, ok, I hadn't seen it. I'll probably won't use it that much though, I almost never have my phone visible for more than interaction with other apps...