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Press and credits
Facts, a short description and logo files for anyone writing about The Book and Me. Everything here can be checked on the site.
Quick facts
- Name: The Book and Me (the reader is titled “The Book”)
- What it is: A free, searchable reader and 24/7 read-aloud stream of 172 biblical and related ancient texts (2,537 chapters), ordered by date of composition rather than by traditional Bible order.
- Voice: AI-generated. Kokoro text-to-speech, voice “bm_lewis”. No human narrator. Audio is hosted by the Internet Archive.
- Streams: Pre-rendered playback on YouTube · Twitch · Kick.
- Cost: Free to read and listen. No account needed, no ads.
- Website: thebookandme.com
- Source: Code under the MIT licence at GitHub.
Short description
The Book and Me is a free, independent library of 172 biblical and related ancient texts, arranged in the order scholars believe they were written and read aloud by a synthetic (AI) voice. The texts are public domain. thebookandme.com
Logos and images
Provided for press and review use. Please do not imply endorsement.
- Mark (SVG)
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Texts, data and audio credits
- World English Bible with Deuterocanon (eBible.org), dedicated to the public domain: the canonical Old and New Testaments and the deuterocanon.
- R. H. Charles (1917, Enoch and Jubilees), the Ante-Nicene Fathers (1870 and 1885), and the other editions named on each work’s page: public domain by age. The full list of editions is in the project README.
- Word definitions: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897, public domain) in a parse by NEUU, CC BY 4.0.
- Place coordinates: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding, CC BY 4.0, with parts derived from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Land outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
- Voice: Kokoro text-to-speech model, rendered by this project; the resulting audio is published at the Internet Archive with a CC0 dedication.
The accuracy report sets out what was checked against the sources, what was corrected and what is still missing.
Press contact
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