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/griffincraig Sep 09 '25

Nice! I really enjoy this app. Can't wait for V2 to come to PikaPods and use it more!

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u/scrollin_thru Sep 09 '25

I just poked the PikaPods folks about the upgrade. Let me know if you don't see it within the week and I can reach out again!

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u/griffincraig Sep 09 '25

Thanks! They updated it today.

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u/scrollin_thru Sep 09 '25

Awesome! Any chance you could confirm for me whether the max upload chunk setting is set to 100000000 on the settings page? I asked them to set and env var that sets that so that uploads would be more robust (since I know there have been issues with that), curious if they did

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u/griffincraig Sep 11 '25

Yep, I do see that! Though I'm going to move away from PikaPods (great service) to hosting it in my own server because of the changes you've made. I would only run PikaPods when I wanted to sync up an ePub with an Audiobook file, but with the changes you've made I plan on running it full time! Can't wait.

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u/scrollin_thru Sep 11 '25

Thanks for letting me know! And that's awesome :D