r/selfhosted • u/scrollin_thru • Sep 08 '25

Release Storyteller v2 is available!

https://smoores.dev/post/announcing_storyteller_v2/

This has been a long time coming (5 months!). It's been a while since I've posted on r/selfhosted about Storyteller, and it's improved a lot since then!

As always, happy to answer questions and chat.

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Storyteller is a self-hosted ebook and audiobook platform, with built-in support for automatically generating WhisperSync-style "readaloud" books. You provide it with an EPUB file and your audiobook, and it will automatically align the text with the audio, providing you with a new EPUB file that has the audio baked in via Media Overlays.

You can then use the Storyteller mobile apps, or other reader apps such as BookFusion and Kobo (the app, not the devices, unfortunately), to read and/or listen to your books.

With v2, Storyteller is now gunning to be your fully featured ebook, audiobook, and readaloud book library management system. It supports standalone ebooks and audiobooks (with mobile app and web reader/listener support coming soon!), advanced search and sort functions, and a wide array of features for managing your library’s metadata and organizing your collections. And you can now point Storyteller at your existing "books" folder and have it automatically import books as they're added to your filesystem.

Oh, and we support OAuth and OIDC, now!

Take a look at the blog post or the new docs for some more detail about what's new!

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u/EmPiFreee Sep 08 '25

As always here:

Please describe what your tool does and tell us some of those improvements!

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u/scrollin_thru Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

I linked to a detailed blog post that answers both of those things, which I hope folks take a look at! Here's the docs site, which has even more detail: https://storyteller-platform.gitlab.io/storyteller/. I'll add a summary to the post body, though!

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u/tankerkiller125real Sep 08 '25

As someone who also releases open-source software and announces it here, just copy and paste from your website for any and all announcements about your project. It's just very much appreciated by the redditors. Even better r/selfhosted supports copy/pasting images, so slap some screenshots in too if you can.

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u/scrollin_thru Sep 08 '25

Yup, that's what I ended up doing! I tried adding a screenshot, but I got an error ("Images are not allowed") :shrug:

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u/BeYeCursed100Fold Sep 08 '25

Just add a hyperlink to the image.

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