Book Reader

A Streamlit app that converts books to audio and plays them page by page.

Supported Inputs

• Upload .txt or .pdf files (up to 50 MB)
• GitHub repo URL — browse and pick any .md or .txt file from the repo

How It Works

• Each page's audio is generated on demand using text-to-speech
• The next page's audio is pre-generated in the background while you listen
• Played pages' audio files are deleted automatically to conserve memory

Running Locally

pip install -r requirements.txt
streamlit run app.py

Optional Secrets

Create .streamlit/secrets.toml (this file is gitignored):

# Use OpenAI TTS for higher-quality audio (costs ~$0.015/1K characters)
OPENAI_API_KEY = "sk-..."

# Access private GitHub repositories
GITHUB_TOKEN = "ghp_..."

Deploying to Streamlit Cloud

1. Push this repo to GitHub
2. Go to share.streamlit.io → connect the repo → deploy
3. Optionally add secrets in the app's Settings → Secrets section