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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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/...

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GitHub - kyutai-labs/pocket-tts: A TTS that fits in your CPU (and pocket)

A TTS that fits in your CPU (and pocket). Contribute to kyutai-labs/pocket-tts development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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

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Join the Thorium Reader Mobile beta

Available on iOS

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🔍 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...

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Assessing the accessibility of your backlist with Readium CLI

Discover how the Readium CLI can help you to extract metadata and prepare to remediate your EPUB backlist.

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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.

Walking along the coast of Shimoda, facing the sea towards smaller islands

An older building in the streets of Shimoda, covered with plans

View above the city taken near the ropeway station

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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.

Homepage of Thorium Mobile. It shows the main navigation along with books currently being read and the ones that haven't been started yet.

A long tap or a left click on a cover shows a list of actions available. This screenshot shows the following ones: Read, Listen, Marks as Not Started, Mark as Finished, Contributors, Share and Remove.

Reader view for a reflowable EPUB in landscape mode with two columns displayed side by side.

Table of contents where the user can expand/collapse items and search as well.

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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

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Panels Store

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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

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Reader Public Beta Update #12 (EPUBs v2, PDF Clean Text v2, Chat Preview, and a lot more)

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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

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BIC Brunch: EAA - DRM & Text to Speech (May 2025)

YouTube video by Book Industry Communication Ltd

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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.

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eBiblio recently shared their 2024 end-of-the-year results, revealing another record year for digital lending in Spain. In 2024, the service reports an ever-increasing number of titles in their catal...

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

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

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What's New in Readium Mobile · Q1 2025

YouTube video by Readium Foundation

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

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.

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The Google Antitrust Ruling: Proposed Remedies | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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...

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YouTube

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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Hadrien Gardeur @hadriengardeur.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

👋 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.

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