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Audiobooks Factory
A server that finds any book and reads it to me — fully automated, end to end.
This one exists because it’s just cool.
I wanted any book, as an audiobook, on my phone, without doing anything. So I built a factory: an indexer that searches many sources to find the book, an acquisition pipeline that fetches it, and a custom converter I wrote that turns the text into a chaptered audiobook with AI narration — proper chapters, proper metadata, ready for any audiobook player.
It runs as roughly nine orchestrated Docker containers on my server, each service on its own authenticated subdomain, with a Postgres-backed metadata layer and a custom frontend for browsing the library. All acquisition traffic is forced through a VPN kill-switch container — if the VPN drops, the traffic stops.
It started as a laptop prototype (a Python converter proven by producing a complete Alice in Wonderland audiobook) and graduated into a permanent service. Now it’s simply part of my infrastructure: I ask for a book in the evening, and it’s narrated in my library by morning.
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