Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction
The author announced tale.fyi, a free web platform that lets users read or listen to public domain fiction from a single link. It tracks reading progress, syncs across devices, and enables note sharing, while also offering a tool for users to publish their own stories. The project integrates resources from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, and LibriVox and seeks community involvement for further development.
- ▪tale.fyi provides seamless switching between reading and listening while saving progress locally and optionally syncing via sign‑in.
- ▪The service includes a proof‑of‑concept demo using "Dracula" and a sample "A Christmas Carol" link to showcase its features.
- ▪It incorporates public domain texts digitized by Project Gutenberg, edited by Standard Ebooks, and narrated by LibriVox volunteers.
- ▪The platform also offers a creator feature at tale.fyi/tell, allowing users to publish their own stories and retain ownership of their audience.
- ▪The author is looking for introductions to like‑minded collaborators to expand the platform’s capabilities.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News: Front Page |
| Canonical URL | https://tale.fyi/@sam/announcing-tale-fyi-read-or-listen-to-an-entire-book-from-a-single-link |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:16:52 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T13:39:52.326Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T13:39:52.326Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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tale.fyiAnnouncing tale.fyi: read (or listen) to an entire book from a single link.samuel cole follow non-fictionscroll plz ↓The short version: I built tale.fyi as a home for fiction on the web, starting with humanity's public domain library. It saves your progress, allows you to switch seamlessly between reading and listening, and share notes with your friends. Try it on tale.fyi/a-christmas-carol, which is a surprisingly fun (and funny!) hang even in 2026. I love books; in college I split my time between Computer Science and Literature, a mix that not everybody understood, but with the recent rapid advancement of computers that can read and speak in English prose, that combination seems more important than ever, and that's why I think now is the most important time to say something I've…
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