Turning any textbook into a faithful, navigable audiobook — with the structure intact, the figures described, and the text reading along.
Why this exists. I’m Ian Garlington, a dyslexic literature PhD who earned my doctorate on audiobooks and machine-read text — and was always let down by their quality and formatting: page numbers read mid-sentence, figures skipped, columns scrambled. I built this to fix that, first for my own daughter, and now for the millions of learners who depend on audio to take in information.
OpenStax U.S. History, Section 1.1 “The Americas.” Converted end-to-end: reading order corrected, page furniture stripped, and the section’s maps and figures described aloud.
Download audiobook (M4B) Download read-along (EPUB 3)
Read-along: open the EPUB in Apple Books or Thorium Reader — the text highlights sentence-by-sentence as it’s narrated, the format that helps dyslexic readers most.