It's always exciting to see new faster than realtime TTS models than can run on any laptop and mobile devices. We're very much focused on Media Overlays and pre-recorded audio right now, but I'm glad to see the release of Pocket TTS: github.com/kyutai-labs/...

After four months in private beta, we're ready to roll out the next phase for Thorium Mobile on iOS with an extended beta. It's currently set up to allow up to 1,000 users so feel free to share it with other potential testers. TestFlight invite: testflight.apple.com/join/2NhKXjSU

🔍 If you're a publisher, distributor or aggregator, here's a new blog post focused on using the Readium CLI to assess the accessibility of your backlist: blog.readium.org/accessibilit...

Media Overlays in EPUB are quietly gaining adoption among specialized libraries and passionate readers. To fill some of the remaining feature gap, I've been advocating for: - support for both sentence and word-by-word highlighting at the same time - and the ability to reference images

On my way to Kamakura after a weekend in Shizuoka and Shimoda. The Izu peninsula is really lovely, I hope that I'll be able to didcover it more thoroughly next time that I'm visiting Japan.

Three weeks ago, we sent the first invites for the private beta of Thorium Mobile on iOS to an initial batch of fifty testers. We're still months away from a 1.0 release but we're very happy with the feedback so far. If you're interested to test it as well, we'll invite more people in January.

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement

We're officially in the post-Comixology era of selling digital comics with two platforms launching soon: - Panels Store: www.panels.store/selling - Sweet Shop: sweetshop.app

Knowledge Futures is dropping support for PubPub as a platform due to a lack of funding: www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025...

Kindle releases new text spacing adjustments just in time for EAA: www.theverge.com/news/690259/...

Germany continues to be the best place for borrowing ebooks on an e-ink reader with the release of a Libby app on PocketBook devices: www.boersenblatt.net/news/pocketb...

@readwise.bsky.social improves its EPUB support with a brand new dedicated reading mode better suited for ebooks: readwise.io/reader/updat...

Interested in Read Aloud (Text-To-Speech) in reading applications? Here's a video recording of a Webinar organized by @bic1uk.bsky.social where I cover in depth how it works behind the scenes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjU-... Slides also available at docs.google.com/presentation... #a11y #EPUB

Here's a new entry of our "Powered by Readium" series with a focus on Spain this time: www.linkedin.com/posts/readiu... eBiblio is a national project for public libraries in Spain operated by @culturagob.bsky.social There's a lot to say so let's cover everything in a thread.

For the last two months, we've been working on improving how we communicate about Readium projects. This week, we published our first video for a brand new format called "What's new in Readium" with a focus on mobile for this one: youtu.be/Yiq6IYvQgYc

Interesting interview on Igalia's blog about the Web and the potential impact on the DOJ ruling regarding Google: www.igalia.com/chats/alex-o... I've been wondering about similar things related to digital reading and the need for a public infrastructure hosted by a non-profit to steer the ship.

Cette semaine la BnF accueille deux évènements importants pour le monde du livre numérique/audio. Pour celles et ceux qui souhaitent suivre à distance, le séminaire "Vers un accès et une offre à la lecture pour tous améliorés" est diffusé en direct sur Youtube: www.youtube.com/live/H_3SzgO...

So, who's next? Apple Music? YouTube Music?

👋 Hello Bluesky, I've been mostly a lurker here until now, but I'm going to try to engage a bit more going forward! It's nice to get such a warm "early Twitter days" vibe around here, even now that more and more people are signing up.