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abcbooks.fyi: own containers, a reading check that listens, and a Fire tablet app (ABC Books rebuild guide) 11OCT2026

ABC Books moves to its own domain and containers, gets a self-hosted Vosk server that hears kids read aloud (and catches misreads), and becomes a real Fire tablet app

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Ray's New Intellectual Arithmetic as a game (Ray's Arithmetic Book 2 rebuild guide) 11OCT2026

Book 2 of Ray's, Grades 3-4: all 80 lessons of mental arithmetic, from adding to fractions, ratio and percentage, read aloud in the same Eloquence voice

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Sound it out: phonics chunking in Eloquence (ABC Books rebuild guide) 11OCT2026

When a child is stuck on a word: the word, then each phonics chunk (st, a, nd) in the Eloquence voice, letter teams in red, a slow highlight

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Ray's New Primary Arithmetic as a game (Ray's Arithmetic rebuild guide) 11OCT2026

All 89 lessons of the 1877 Ray's Book One: counting, the four tables, story problems and measures, read aloud in the same Eloquence voice as ABC Books

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McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader (ABC Books rebuild guide) 11OCT2026

Book 7 of ABC Books: all 138 selections for reading, from Shakespeare and Milton to Patrick Henry and Poe, read in Eloquence

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McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader (ABC Books rebuild guide) 11OCT2026

Book 6 of ABC Books: all 117 selections in prose and poetry, with McGuffey's word meanings and the authors

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Spell & Read: McGuffey's 1867 Pictorial Primer (ABC Books rebuild guide) 11OCT2026

An older McGuffey Primer that teaches by spelling: the child spells each word in the line, then reads the line

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McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader (ABC Books rebuild guide) 11OCT2026

Book 5 of ABC Books: all 90 lessons, with McGuffey's own word meanings and a new "Talk about it" step for the book's questions

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Phonics sounds in Eloquence (ABC Books rebuild guide) 11OCT2026

How the letter cards say real phonics sounds like "th", "sh" and short "a" instead of letter names, for every book

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McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader (ABC Books rebuild guide) 11OCT2026

Book 4 of ABC Books: 77 lessons of the 1879 Third Reader, with new words worked out automatically because Gutenberg's copy has none

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McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader (ABC Books rebuild guide) 10OCT2026

Book 3 of ABC Books: all 71 lessons of the 1879 Second Reader, stories and poems read in Eloquence, with tracing and blackboard copy work

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McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader (ABC Books rebuild guide) 10OCT2026

Book 2 of ABC Books: all 63 lessons of the 1879 First Reader, read in Eloquence, with tracing and blackboard copy work

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McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (ABC Books rebuild guide) 10OCT2026

All 52 lessons of the 1881 Primer as a reading and handwriting game: listen, read aloud, trace print and cursive, write on a blackboard

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