This is a really good idea. This has nothing to do with the current crisis but if you could somehow credibly guarantee hosting for 50+ years people could read stories to their yet to be born grandchildren. People with terminal diseases and a two year old could still read to their children after their passing. Consider it.
Awesome idea, and nice work! Is this open source, and if so, would you mind sharing a link to it? I am beginning work on a slightly similar project [1] to help facilitate speech therapy (girlfriend is a speech-language pathologist) over video chat and would be interested to compare with your approach and tech stack.<p>I saw this [2] Chess + video chat project the other day, and drew heavy inspiration from its approach [3].<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/scott113341/slp-memory" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/scott113341/slp-memory</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790728" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790728</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://glitch.com/edit/#!/rootshirechess" rel="nofollow">https://glitch.com/edit/#!/rootshirechess</a>
This is an awesome idea, I had one yesterday that was similar but for a different purpose: LastMessage.to/<someone><p>After reading this article:
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/us/costa-luminosa-passengers-ordeal/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/us/costa-luminosa-passengers-...</a>
"Kevin and Ryan Sheehan will never know whether their father heard them say goodbye on speaker phone."<p>My thought was to create a place where you can leave your last message to someone or to the world.
This is so cool,
My mom is a school teacher, and the school is trying to get her to make videos for her students.<p>She struggles with video editing software to make videos.
This could help a lot, especially if I could have custom stories.<p>She could do a story session with my and I would just record the screen.
Thanks for sharing! It such a great idea :-)
Talking with my wife (SLP) she observed how important is interactive reading and I was wondering if you had that planned or if open sourcing this was an option so I could contribute to something like that.<p>Just as a reference, some therapy platforms allow the users to draw on the book, or put stickers and such... and even though this is not full-blown therapeutic, being able to draw (a transparent HTLM canvas on top of the image? websockets communicating x,y?) would add a lot to this, I think.<p>Thanks for sharing!
Add in the WHO book for children to help with dealing with covid too:<p><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/09-04-2020-children-s-story-book-released-to-help-children-and-young-people-cope-with-covid-19" rel="nofollow">https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/09-04-2020-children-s-s...</a>
I just wanted to personally thank you for making this. My 7yr old and his grandparents in NYC are LOVING this. Please keep uploading more great books to the library!
Nice app. It could also be used to help the medical students who's exams have all been cancelled. I would like to help if this is open-sourced.<p>One feature request: my Microsoft surface has a front and back camera. For some reason, the app started with the read camera on. Would be nice if there was a way to pick which camera you want, if there are multiple cameras on the device.
Very nice. Testing on my iPhone 6s landscape, I noticed the prev and next buttons were not aligned with the book page.<p>I also created a similar tool a few weeks ago available for free as well here <a href="https://www.appblit.com/bookcafe" rel="nofollow">https://www.appblit.com/bookcafe</a>
I just tried this and couldn't get anything to load (Firefox). Maybe I'm just doing something wrong? Didn't see any errors in the console