Turn a plain text file into an audiobook
Plain text has no table of contents, so Pagetape looks for chapter headings itself: lines such as CHAPTER I, Chapter 12 or Part Two. Everything before the first real chapter is kept as front matter and starts unticked.
Your file is read in this browser. Only the chapters you choose are sent to us, and only when you convert.
How to do it
- 01Drop the .txt file below. UTF-8 and older Windows encodings both work.
- 02Check the chapters Pagetape found and untick the front matter if you like.
- 03Pick a voice and convert.
- Project Gutenberg's header and licence are removed automatically, and the title and author are read from the header.
- A text with no headings becomes one chapter with a mark about every 37 minutes, so you can still skip around.
- One price per book: $1.99 up to 4 hours of audio, $3.99 up to 12 hours, $5.99 up to 24, $8.99 up to 48.
Questions
- My text has no chapters. Can I still convert it?
- Yes. It becomes one long chapter with marks about every 37 minutes of audio.
- What about a list of chapters at the top of the file?
- A contents list at the start is detected and folded into one front-matter chapter that is not read unless you tick it.
- Which encodings work?
- UTF-8, and Windows-1252 or Windows-1251 for older files.
One price per book
Set by the length of the chapters you tick. No subscription, no account, and the first lines are free to hear.
| Up to 4 hours of audio | $1.99 |
| Up to 12 hours of audio | $3.99 |
| Up to 24 hours of audio | $5.99 |
| Up to 48 hours of audio | $8.99 |