Hello fellow pirates 👋
I’m sick of Audible and it’s buggy app. Due to their excessive a/b testing the app stops working every second night. So I setup a selfhosted audiobookshelf instance.

However, I need my audiobooks to fall asleep and I don’t want to listen to the same books again and again, so I need a new source. Do you have any recommendations? In best case in German language, in worst case in English.

Thank you in advance! ☺️

  • RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    There are some great resources being posted, but I would like to offer a different one. MyAnonaMouse is a private tracker just for books and book adjacent things (comics, audiobooks, even radio shows) and at least at the time I was looking was said to be the best spot. It wasn’t hard to get in, the rules are VERY lenient and it’s quite easy to build up a large ratio with their points. As long as you are comfortable with using torrents and are able to leave them running to share the love with others I have yet to find a book unavailable. Feel free to ask about MaM if you have any questions.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Well, I’ve listened to audiobooks on Spotify (and Tidal) for a while, but that’s not piracy. You could try “hoerbuch” followed by the top-level domain of the United States. And the local library here has several shelves filled with audiobooks. I might have ripped a few to listen to them on modern devices…

    • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      hoerbuch

      I hate these download pages that partner with scammy hosting providers. They are always shit to use and want some payment data and they make it intentionally difficult to not buy those premium accounts. Fuck all of them.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I know. What helps is to learn which buttons to click and which ones to avoid. A good adblocker (uBlock for example) and some downloader. Not sure what people use these days, I have JDownloader2.
        Still sucks, but it works. Not sure if there’s better options out there, I’m not aware of any.

        I never buy premium accounts either. I don’t want to support their business model. IMO piracy needs to be free. Once I want to pay money, that goes towards the artists who created the content.

  • Chaser@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I also found another source myself: The library. Just found out our village has one. It has like 150 audio books on cd. As it’s only open for 2 days a week I have to wait a bit. But then I may visit them with my notebook and an external cd drive and make some…backups 😉

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Try YouTube. It’s surprising how much stuff ends up there and doesn’t get deleted. And you can easily download the stuff with yt-dlp.