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I really didn't intend to be dishonest.

I just wrote a catchy title (which can be a bit misleading, but not dramatically, as all the audiobooks I'm mentioning are really accessible to people; I developed all the infrastructure needed for that), and tried to clarify everything in the post itself.

Exactly how I perceive it

Agreed, I should do this.

Although I still concerned about the costs of maintaining all these MP3s.

For some of the books, it's true; for some, it's not.

I'm really enjoying listening to nonfiction – history, philosophy, biographies.

Thank you for support!

Why do you think it's a lie?

There are 70,000 audiobooks in the catalog, and people can listen to them. If audio is generated on-demand in the background, it does not make them "not-audiobooks", and it does not make my post a lie. "If it looks like a duck..."

It's just a technical implementation detail. And I'm not hiding it; I'm describing it in the post

1. There are 70,000 audiobooks in the catalog, and people can listen to them. If audio is generated on-demand in the background, it does not make them "not-audiobooks", and it does not make my post a lie.

It's just a technical implementation detail. And I'm not hiding it; I'm describing it in the post. I cannot describe the implementation detail in the short title.

It's just that you decided to believe that it's a lie, saying it very confidently, and taking down the post that was received generally very positively.

2. It's not a subscription, it's one-time purchase of hours.

Come on, what's your problem, man?

I explained what I did in detail. I'm open in the comment section and explained my reasoning regarding the pricing. I've made practically no money off of this project so far.

There is an option to cache, but there is also an option to crowd-source, which makes the price for the first person smaller.

Moreover, if you try to buy an 'hour plan' for $15 and listen to any PG book, you will not be billed for the converted chunk, so the caching works as you'd expect.

Flagging feels so exteremely unfair.

It wouldn't fit into HN's characters limit

You should try listening to some non-fiction, such as history, philosophy, biographies, etc.

It's already great for that purpose.

I checked out the omnivore TTS.

They're using a previous generation of TTS models, which most of the reader apps are using. They're reasonable, cheap, but sound noticeably worse than OpenAI's or 11Labs. I don't like them.