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24 alternatives to liveBook – Manning Publications' new book platform
liveBooks are enhanced books. They add narration, interactive exercises, code execution, and other features to eBooks.
liveBook is an enhanced eBook platform from Manning Publications that adds narration, interactive exercises, and code execution capabilities to traditional books. Designed for developers and technical learners, it… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. liveBook – Manning Publications' new book platform launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Playbook▲397Beautiful documentation your customers will love
2025 · playbookdocs.com · its alternatives →
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GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.
2014 · gitbook.io · its alternatives →
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Writebook▲318Instantly publish your own books on the web for free
2024 · once.com · its alternatives →
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Automate code & data workflows with interactive Elixir notebooks - livebook-dev/livebook
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bookster.cc ▲258Transform your knowledge into captivating ebooks in minutes.
2025 · bookstera.com · its alternatives →
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Dnotebook▲67Easily create pages with live code, text and visualizations.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Playbook▲372Dropbox for creatives to see everything, find anything
2021 · playbook.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · usedevbook.com · its alternatives →
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- 11HCHackerBooks.com▲351
2011 · hackerbooks.com · its alternatives →
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Professionally designed books in seconds
2016 · reedsy.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · stack.app · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone, Dipesh and Siddarth here. We are building PlayBooks (https://github.com/DrDroidLab/playbooks), an open source tool to write executable notebooks for on-call investigations / remediations instead of Google Docs or Wikis. There’s a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e-wOtIm1gk, and our docs are here: https://docs.drdroid.io/docs/playbooks We were in YC’s W23 batch working on a data lakehouse with support for dynamic log schemas. Eventually we realized it was a product in search of a market and decided to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GoodBook▲134A large selection of free ebooks and audio books 📚
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Reader Alive▲105Translate, listen to, and ask questions about your ebooks
May 2026 · readeralive.com · its alternatives →
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ReadBit▲122Read wisely & save time with text-to-speech audiobook reader
2021 · readbit.app · its alternatives →
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Write and publish stories, poems & more for free
2023 · storybook.app · its alternatives →
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Shown HN: Lue - Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech Hello, Just went live on GitHub with this project. I really enjoy listening to my eBooks as audiobooks but was frustrated by the available options. Converting books into audiobooks with scripts is tedious, and most tools stumble over footnotes, headers, or formatting. I wanted something simple: just throw a book at it, and it starts reading immediately without any clicking or loading. I also wanted it to be customizable and modular because new, better TTS engines are released all the time. For this initial release, I settled on Edge…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · papyruseditor.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Since 2019, I’ve been working on a writing platform designed for creating complex documents (e.g., theses). I personally use it for everything as it also allows to classify documents in categories so you can organize them efficiently. As of a few months ago, the app is also available in the browser, and you can now invite coworkers to collaborate on a document in real time. The app is somewhat inspired by LyX. It offers an intuitive, modern editor, but users don’t need to know any LaTeX. When it’s time to export, they can choose from a range of templates (IEEE paper, thesis, etc.). A…
2025 · its alternatives →
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