◈ MONRED

Audiobooks and reading — public domain, beautifully served.

  M ── O ── N ── R ── E ── D
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  └── Public domain.       ─┘
      Acoustically free.
      Always open.

MONRED is a precision-built, zero-friction frontend that fuses the world's most powerful public domain archives into a single, unified reading and listening experience. No accounts. No subscriptions. No noise.

It pulls live data from LibriVox and the Internet Archive simultaneously — serving 21,000+ volunteer-narrated audiobooks and millions of digitized texts — then hands you off directly to a play-ready audiobook player or an in-browser PDF reader.

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◈ Live Demo

👉 coding-to-void.github.io/MONRED/MONRED-live.html

No install. No setup. Open and listen.

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◈ Features

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  │  🎧  Audiobook mode  ──  21,000+ play-ready books    │
  │  📄  PDF mode        ──  millions of free texts      │
  │  🔍  Search          ──  title, author, genre        │
  │  🗂️  Live catalog   ──  newest releases first        │
  │  📚  Personal library ── resume where you left off   │
  │  🌍  Multi-language  ──  2,664+ non-English works    │
  │  🌙  Dark mode       ──  easy on the eyes            │
  │  📰  LibriVox feed   ──  live news and new releases  │
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Search Modes

Mode	What it does
Title	Find a specific audiobook by name
Author	Browse by public domain writers
Genre / Subject	MONRED genre matching across the catalog
Latest Releases	Newest catalog additions, always live

Curated Collections

Shelf	Vibe
Dark Academia	Stone libraries, candlelight, annotated margins
Philosophy Essentials	Clear minds, difficult questions, lasting arguments
Sci-Fi Classics	Machines, futures, strange planets, human doubt
Malayalam Literature	Regional voices, layered memory, literary warmth
Psychological Thrillers	Unreliable narrators and rooms that feel too quiet

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◈ The Stack

Source	Role	What it powers
🎙️ LibriVox API	Live catalog & audio streams	21,000+ audiobooks, MP3 playback, metadata
📚 Internet Archive API	Full-text & PDF sourcing	Millions of public domain texts
📖 Readest	In-browser reading	PDF viewer, no friction

Tech: Pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No npm. No build step. No framework.

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◈ App Pages

Page	URL	Purpose
Discover	MONRED-live.html	Featured shelf, curated collections, latest releases
Library	MONRED-library.html	Resume audiobooks and saved PDFs
Audiobooks	MONRED-audiobooks.html	Full live audiobook catalog
Search	MONRED-search.html	Search by title, author, genre, narrator
Profile	MONRED-profile.html	Reading progress, finished books, dark mode

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◈ Getting Started

Use it live (recommended)

https://coding-to-void.github.io/MONRED/MONRED-live.html

Run locally

git clone https://github.com/CODING-to-void/MONRED.git
cd MONRED
open MONRED-live.html

No npm install. No build pipeline. Clone → Open → Done.

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◈ File Structure

MONRED/
├── index.html              ── Entry point / redirect
├── MONRED-live.html        ── Discover page (main app)
├── MONRED-library.html     ── Personal library
├── MONRED-audiobooks.html  ── Audiobook catalog
├── MONRED-search.html      ── Search interface
├── MONRED-profile.html     ── User profile & progress
├── MONRED-book.html        ── Individual book detail view
├── MONRED-live.css         ── Stylesheet (all pages)
├── MONRED-live.js          ── Core app logic
├── MONRED-book.js          ── Book detail page logic
├── MONRED-pdf.js           ── PDF handler
└── MONRED-logo.svg         ── Logo

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◈ APIs Used

🎙️ LibriVox API

Powering every audiobook search, catalog listing, and play-ready detail page.

• Endpoint: https://librivox.org/api/
• Returns: Book metadata, reader info, MP3 URLs, language, genre

📚 Internet Archive API

Used to surface public domain PDF texts and match them to audiobook entries.

• Endpoints:
  • https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php
  • https://archive.org/metadata/{identifier}
• Returns: Full-text items, PDF links, subject metadata

📖 Readest Integration

Matching PDFs open directly inside Readest — a clean in-browser ebook reader — without ever leaving MONRED.

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◈ Library Pulse

  ╔══════════════════════════════════════════╗
  ║   📖  21,346   cataloged works           ║
  ║   👥  14,697   volunteer readers         ║
  ║   🌍   2,664   non-English works         ║
  ║   📅      83   new works last month      ║
  ╚══════════════════════════════════════════╝
             — live from LibriVox —

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◈ How It Works

  You type a search
        │
        ├──▶  LibriVox API  ──▶  Audiobook player (play-ready)
        │
        └──▶  Internet Archive API  ──▶  PDF via Readest (direct open)

1. Search — Enter a title, author, genre, or narrator
2. Pick a lane — Audiobook or PDF mode
3. Play or Read — Jump straight in, zero friction

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◈ Philosophy

"Acoustical Liberation" — public domain books should be heard, not just archived.

LibriVox volunteers have spent 20 years recording over 21,000 books. The Internet Archive holds civilisation's memory. MONRED makes it accessible. Fast. Beautiful. Free.

No accounts. No paywalls. No friction. Just the books. Just the signal.

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◈ Milestones

  2005  ── LibriVox project founded
  2025  ── LibriVox 20th anniversary 🎉
  2025  ── MONRED built — bringing it all together

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◈ Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Whether it's a UI fix, a new search mode, or deeper API integration — open an issue and let's talk.

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◈ License

MIT — free to use, fork, and build on.

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Built on LibriVox · Internet Archive · Readest Public domain. Always free.